
This release features new functions to organize downloads in better manner with options to move a group of links up and down, ability to add comments (can be used to save archive password) and new system-tray icon feature.
All-in-all JetBee is a must-try utility, I have tested more then 5-6 free CD/DVD burning applications but was unable to find a alternative as simple and fast as JetBee.
EventID 4226: TCP/IP has reached the security limit imposed on the number of concurrent TCP connect attempts.
This limit can slow down your internet access specially Peer-2-Peer applications like BitTorrent which require connecting to several peers for optimal performance, to increase this limit for speedy torrent downloading you need to patch the Windows TCP/IP system driver file, If your have already patched your TCPIP.sys file and updated your computer to Windows XP Service Pack 3, you should re-patch it using the free TCP/IP patcher for Windows XP.
This nice, fast and compact free download manager from FlashGet comes with a brand new eye-catchy interface, the new product is optimized for smaller system resources use, faster downloading and better use of desktop real-state, The new version also lets you download videos directly from more then 56 video sites including YouTube.
All the dragging, piling and tossing functionality looks very similar to Microsoft Surface styled navigation, the best thing is that BumpTop works with touch-screen enabled computers running Microsoft Windows 7 allowing you to use touch-gestures to perform these functions.
BumpTop is currently available for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 in two flavors Free and Paid Pro version which costs $29 to buy and features extra functionality over the free version.
In such situation's free utility "Repair My Word" can come handy to recover corrupted data from Microsoft Word files (.doc) with ease, the software is designed to recover text from damaged or corrupt Word files (.doc files), The recovered text can then be saved as an new error free Microsoft Word document.
Microsoft provides free Office Compatibility Pack for automatic conversion of Office 2007 documents to Office 2003 format, the small 28 MB compatibility pack enables earlier version of Microsoft Office to Open, Edit & Save Microsoft Office 2007 Documents.
However, the newer Office 2007 file format might not be the best way to distribute your files, Microsoft therefore provides free Office 2007 add-in for conversion and publishing of Office documents into more popular and widely used Adobe Acrobat PDF file format.
The whole subtitle searching and downloading procedure can be made much simpler and fully automatic by using special subtitle downloading software's like SubDownloader and OSCAR.
If you have already tried fixing CD/DVD scratches without any success or partial success, and are still unable to copy important files and folders from damaged media, try Unstoppable Copier - the small and portable Windows utility lets you recover maximum possible data from media having bad sectors, scratches or any other reason giving errors while reading data.
The program tries to read all possible data smartly skipping unreadable sectors, Using this method most types of files can be made usable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end.
There could be several reasons to use anonymous P2P networks like privacy concerns or for bypassing censorship, NodZilla is one such experimental decentralized, self-organizing, fault-tolerant peer-2-peer grid network meant for anonymous file-sharing and distributed services built on top of it like chat, efficient multicast video streaming, and secured file storage.
Unlike other similar file-sharing service Nodezilla offers cache features allowing servers to create local replicas of any data objects for providing faster access and robustness to network partitions help reducing network congestion by localizing access traffic. Furthermore, to strengthen the infrastructure against crash, information leakage, or become compromised the network makes use of full data redundancy and encryption techniques
Some PDF provides simple to use free utilities for converting PDF documents to various file-formats like Word, HTML, and Text, their PDF Image Extractor utility lets you extract images from pdf files and save them to JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PNG, TGA, PBM, or PPM image formats.
The PDF image extractor utility supports encrypted PDF files and allows batch operations, you simply select the files and output folder and you are ready for the image extraction.
Developed by Innovative Solutions, A Microsoft Certified Partner - DriverMax would be the best free utility to download and install latest driver updates for your Windows XP and Vista computers, the community powered driver updater service currently supports more then 80,000 different hardware devices with 1,29,000 different driver versions.
If you are looking for a free, fast and easy folder hiding and locking utility for Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista - My LockBox would be the perfect solution, the single-click folder locking and unlocking utility efficiently hides folder of your choice instantly.
Once locked, the folder can only be made visible by entering correct password using the hotkey enabled control-panel.
Google Books does all what it can to prevent users from downloading and saving pages, but with free online service's like "Google Book Downloader" the whole process of saving pages from Google books is just a matter of few clicks.
VIPeers is a new one of its kind hybrid free file-sharing service allowing users to share files upto 5 GB in size with ease, to share files users simply need to upload it using the web-based uploader or the PODMailing software, Once uploaded VIPeers provides direct HTTP download links with option to share file using the BitTorrent protocol without the hassle of creating .torrent file, adding trackers, and even the seeding.
To make things even more easier VIPeers offers copy-and-paste code snippets for effortless sharing of uploaded files on blogs, forums, social-networks and websites.
Windows XP features embedded Picture & Fax Viewer for quick viewing of your images, However, the handy utility only supports common popular image formats like JPEG, GIF, and BMP making it necessary to install other multi-format image viewers like ACDSee or XnView, but not anymore free Windows Utility ImageXtender let you hack Windows XP standard Picture & Fax Viewer to support more then 200 known graphics extensions.
You just need to install ImageXtender and it patches the default viewer to support the new image formats, the process of viewing images would remain the same allowing you to view all image formats in three different viewing modes - Preview, Thumbnails and Filmstrip.
Microsoft Windows DirectX 10 features heavily improved 3D rendering capabilities and several new features to deliver a new generation of visual effects with significantly improved game and 3-D application performance, Sadly, DirectX 10 is officially available for Windows Vista only and Microsoft has no plans to release DirectX 10 for Windows XP, However, guys at "Falling Leaf Systems" ported DirectX 10 on Windows XP starting the project named "Alky" with the aim to provide compatibility libraries for making DirectX 10 work on Windows XP with full support for application development API's, the Alky project is now closed but the source-code is made open-source for further development by community.
The free DirectX 10 compatibility libraries provided by Alky project allow's developers to create DirectX 10 powered games and applications on platforms other than Windows Vista using Microsoft DirectX 10 SDK and API's, Windows XP users on forums and blogs are reporting successfully using Alky's DirectX 10 for Windows XP to port and play Directx 10 only games like Halo 2 and Shadowrun on Windows XP.
iSkysoft Video Downloader is an free software for Mac allowing users to download FLV video files from popular video sites like YouTube, Google Videos, Yahoo Videos, Metacafe, Break, MySpace, Gofish, AOL, Veoh, imeem, Blip.TV and other similar video websites.
Using the software is pretty easy as it automatically sniffs video files played inside Safari and Firefox browsers allowing you to download the full-length videos with ease, the utility is multi-threaded and supports batch downloading options for simultaneous downloads, you can enjoy the downloaded .FLV movie files on your MAC computer using the in-built FLV player, but if you want video conversion feature you will need to upgrade to the PRO version costing $29, However, If you are not willing to spend money and want a free solution, here are two excellent free solutions to convert videos on your Mac computer with ease.
The new version features top-sites, cover flow, full history search, tabs on tops, native Windows look and feel and set of development tools as described in details below.
The user interface is very easy to use and intuitive, users simply add Rapidshare links to create the download queue, and Rapidshare Plus will do the rest automatically downloading file one after another saving them to the folder of your choice.
We have blogged about Freeware Video Splitter solution earlier on this blog, But if you are looking for a fast and free video joiner with ability to convert video to different format's here is the perfect solution - "Free Video Joiner" is as simple as its name sounds, the single screen interface offers basic functionality but gets the job done fast and easy.
Free Video Joiner supports AVI, MOV, WMV, MOV and MPEG video formats for input and can output to AVI, WMV, MOV, MP4, DVD, VCD, iPod, iPhone, Zune and PSP compatible video formats covering all popular devices and video formats.
OpenOffice is one of the most preferred open-source office application suite, despite being the best free alternative to Microsoft Office, OpenOffice lacks in terms of speed and full-compatibility with MS-Office formats, But this can be taken care of with Go-OO - A fork of OpenOffice, which promises to be faster and lighter then OpenOffice, still having better compatibility features with other office-suites.
Go-oo supports OpenXML and SVG natively and is capable of importing Microsoft Works, DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX formats out-of-the-box, coupled with excellent VBA, WordPerfect graphics, and EMF rendering capabilities the application offers a lot of compatibility options, sized at only 132.38MB (Windows) the application is available on Windows and Linux platforms.
We have written about methods on how to update Kaspersky products offline, one of the discussed method made use of a pretty unknown official Kaspersky updater utility, the free command-line utility is now in public beta and allows downloading of all Home and corporate Kaspersky Lab's product updates to a folder of your choice for offline update, the good thing is that the new version now supports a GUI to control the CLI Universal updater utility.
Virus's can get real nasty and make your Operating System unbootable, in such cases the user is left with only two choices either to format and re-install the operating system or to use a bootable anti-virus cleaner for removing the virus infection, obviously the second option is the preferred one, almost all major anti-virus companies provide bootable rescue disk's for removal of such stubborn virus infections, Kaspersky Rescue Disk is one of the best bootable anti-virus rescue disk out there with an fully functional option to download latest anti-virus definitions updates from internet, the free rescue disk GUI is similar to Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 allowing users to remove virus's and malware's via a familiar interface without booting into Windows.
Free mass file-mirroring service's like RapidSpread and UploadJockey are quite popular these days, but here is something which beats these services hands down - Zoom’s File & Image Uploader is a free utility which takes the pain out of creating mass file and image mirror's to more then 70 file and image hosting services including mass-mirror services like RapidSpread and UploadJockey.
The portable utility features a fully functional drag-n-drop interface with ability to use premium accounts with parallel uploading support, the only thing missing is the handy Windows context-menu integration for fast access, this should be expected in upcoming releases.