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Defraggler is one of the best desfragmentation programs out there. The software allows you to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual files – unique in the industry. This compact and portable supports Windows applicationNTFS and FAT32 file systems. Defraggler is a easy way to improve your computer perfomance; and it’s free

Most defrag tools only allow you to defrag an entire drive. Defraggler lets you specify one or more files, folders, or the whole drive to defragment.

Defraggler Runs on Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000. Including both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

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Paltalk is the leader in video chat. Users can see, hear, and talk to one another instantly from anywhere in the world. Millions of people are chatting online right now. No webcam is required.

Paltalk offers high audio / video quality, advanced instant messaging features and 5000 chat rooms.

Latest Version of Video Chat Community Extends Greater Ease-of-Use to Users Everywhere with Personalized SuperIM URLs, BlackBerry Support and Facebook Chat Integration.

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InfraRecorder is an easy to use CD and DVD burner application. It supports virtually all different formats including rewritable disc, multi-session disc and dual-layer DVDs. Also audio CDs can be created with just a few simple drag’n drops in InfraRecorder.

Other important features include disc copying, audio cd ripping and ISO generation and burning (image formats supported: ISO and BIN/CUE). InfraRecorder is available in more than 20 languages – and the 64-bit version runs on Microsoft Vista.

Infrarecorder is a free, open source alternative to Nero Burning Room and other programs.

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Concrete5 is easy to use and flexible CMS to build with.   With concrete5 you can built any tipe of site, from community-based webistes to online newspapers.

Anyone can start making their own website in seconds, and the editing experience is easier than using a blog; just click on what you want to change.  Go to any page in your site, and a editing toolbar gives you all the controls you need to update your website.Developers still get a flexible and robust framework for building sophisticated web application.

Concrete5 is free and open source.  Download the Concrete5 source .

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Joliclud is an Open Source, Linux-based OS designed specifically for netbook. Jolicloud combines an optimized version of Linux kernel with an innovative and cool interface.

This new OS can be installed in less than 15 minutes alongside your old Windows and all your data will be perfectly safe. Jolicloud allows users keep their data locally with the ability to save anything on the Cloud. Jolicloud OS is optimized for social media and has been designed to make sure you can connect and collaborate. Most popular web apps are available on Jolicloud: Firefox, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, Boxee and Hulu, among others. Applications are free and can be installed without download.

Jolicloud has released a public beta and works on most of netbooks. Download Jolicloud OS for free

Paint.NET is a free, powerful image editing software that uses a tabbed document interface. The tabs display a live thumbnail of the image instead of a text description. This makes navigation very simple and fast.  Paint.NET to start up quickly and be responsive to every mouse click.

Many special effects are included for enhancing and perfecting your images. Everything from blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing are included. Also included is our unique 3D Rotate/Zoom effect that makes it very easy to add perspective and tilting
The interface is also enhanced for Aero Glass if you are using Windows 7 or Vista.

Paint  includes simple tools for drawing shapes, including an easy-to-use curve tool for drawing splines or Bezier curves. The Gradient tool, new for 3.0, has been cited as an innovative improvement over similar tools provided by commercial software.

Other tools include the Magic Wand for selecting regions of similar color, and the Clone Stamp for copying or erasing portions of an image. There is also a simple text editor, a tool for zooming, and a Recolor tool.

In addition, Paint.net has an active online forum with a ever-expanding community.

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Nero 9 Lite, a free basic version of the burning software is available for Free Download.  Nero 9 offers you the chance to enjoy Nero’s world-renowned data disc burning and copying features for an unlimited time, for free.

Nero 9 lite includes  basic data burning and copying capabilities for your CDs and DVDs.

Note that this installation includes Ask SearchToolbar. In addition, users can connect directly to the My Nero community to share your music, photo and video blogs, and to exchange ideas on a variety of community and technology topics.

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QuuSoft Driver Smart allows you to easily detect and update the latest drivers for your entire hardware devices. It can also back up the existing drivers and restore the drivers in case that you needed to reinstall or upgrade your operating system. QuuSoft Driver Smart provides an easy-to-use interface through which only a few clicks can make driver updating completely done with ease.

Driver Smart, any driver problems or issues caused by the inappropriate drivers will be easily and completely fixed from now on. QuuSoft Driver Smart is superior driver update software which can exactly detect the outdated or broken device drivers, locate the latest versions available to your computer system from our massive online driver database, automatically download and install them on your computer system. It easily walks you through the entire driver update process even without your notice, making updating drivers a fairly painless task that you ever have.

Driver Smart is brought to you by Quuasoft. QuuSoft provides the industry-leading system utility and security tools for every computer users, including system care, registry cleaner, anti-spyware, driver updating tools and other system utilities.

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Aptana Studio is a complete world-class HTML, CSS, and JavaScript editor,

This software includes powerful authoring tools for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, along with thousands of additional plugins created by the community.

Aptana supports most popular libraries including jQuery, Prototype, YUI, dojo, Ext JS, MooTools, and others. Aptana Studio is cross-platform, 100% free, and open-source. The software is available for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.

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InfoWatch CryptoStorage is a reliable means of ensuring confidentiality of data with which you can:

• Protect the data stored and processed on a personal computer and local network resources;
• Ensure security of information stored and used on laptops and removable media.

InfoWatch CryptoStorage provides comprehensive capabilities for data protection. The solution provides installation of cryptographic protection for individual files and folders, logical drives, including system and boot areas, removable media (USB-drives, Flash-drives, memory cards for mobile devices, etc.), as well as allows the creation of secure data repositories – the designated container files.

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Have you felt helpless on finding the device drivers when they are corrupted or after re-installing your operating system? You are not accessible to printer, scanner, USB device, DVD player or new devices, getting warning messages that the computer does not recognize the devices. What’s worse, you are troubled with the blue screen, system crashing or freezing from time to time. Do you know your PC mysteriously slows down due to the outdated drivers?

Driver Checker represents the industry-leading technology at every step of its structures which is fashioning its functionality anywhere. Driver Checker is the safest, most efficient and trusty solution to solve these problems related to the issues of Windows Drivers, free it from driver errors, system slowdown and even system crash. It includes a presumptive diagnosis, automatic backup, update and restoration that can find and fix invalid & missing drivers.

Without proper drivers, your computer can not work; without drivers being kept in step with the Internet development, your PC may encounter a series of problems, like buggy and poor to perform devices. What is worse, you will face device malfunction, conflicts and even complete system crashes. Choosing and installing the correct device drivers for given hardware is often a key component of computer system configuration.

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If you have private information that needs deleting, you shouldn’t make do with just the Recycle Bin. You need to make more of an effort to ensure that your confidential details stay confidential.

Moo0 FileShredder is a handy program that does just that. The application opens a small interface that can be expanded to see the precise details of each deletion method. There is also a blank area, which is where you drag your unwanted files to. You chose from one of the four levels of deletion – from Shred Once to Vaporize – and drag over your file. Bear in mind that dragging it into Moo0 FileShredder is all you need to do in order to delete it forever, so make really sure that you’ve picked the right file!

Moo0 FileShredder hasn’t got many options, but the ones it does have are quite useful. You can set the program to close by simply clicking the middle mouse button, or expand or reduce the window by right-clicking. Moo0 FileShredder is also available in a variety of languages, and leaves a relatively small footprint on your machine. If you need to delete confidential files on a regular basis, it’s a very good bet.

Moo0 FileShredder – a slick program that does what it says on the tin.

Download Moo0 FileShredder 1.06 in Softonic

Mercury Messenger, also known as MM or dMSN, is a free alternative to MSN Messenger offering almost all the same features.

The IM client allows you to connect to your live or hotmail account and chat with your contacts. You can organize them by groups, use emoticons, send files and activate your webcam during chats. The interface itself is highly similar to that of MSN Messenger albeit a much less attractive one. I found that the different elements are placed a little clumsily here and there, making Mercury Messenger slightly unintuitive. Luckily the interface is interchangeable so if you find a good skin you can use that instead.

A big difference with MSN Messenger is RSS support. Mercury allows you to add and preview RSS feeds. I was a little skeptic of the idea at first, as I much prefer previewing RSS feeds on a whole screen, however I found it very similar to feed reading on a mobile device, which works in some way. Mercury Messenger has a tabbed interface which allows you to open and work with multiple accounts. Beware that having too many open simply ends up confusing though.

Although missing the most recent features of MSN Messengers and despite a weaker interface, Mercury Messenger is a good alternative with RSS and multiple account support.

Download Mercury Messenger 1.9.5 in Softonic

If Windows already features a tool to uninstall programs, why should you install a third-party tool for that same purpose? Easy: because with some of them, like KUninstall, you get extra features the Windows default uninstaller doesn’t include.

After extracting the program anywhere on your hard drive, KUninstall scans the system and displays a list with all installed applications. A right-click on any of these entries will reveal a context menu from which you can uninstall the selected app and view detailed information about it, among other options.

Another nice feature in KUninstall is the ability to identify any running process and perform different tasks with it. Simply drag the crosshair icon on top of any window or app and KUninstall will display a message with the process’s complete path and buttons to uninstall, locate or kill the process.

Besides not requiring installation, KUninstall is also much faster than the Windows default uninstaller and, as you can see, includes interesting functions that make it well worth a try.

With KUninstall you can not only remove unwanted apps from your system, but also obtain more information about them.

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Since Google Reader came along, choosing which app to use to handle my RSS feeds has been a no brainer.

RSSOwl is however a very decent offering which I’d consider using if it Google hadn’t trumped the market. RSSOwl is all about organization – organizing your RSS feeds so that they’re easy to read manage and access. Although Google Reader now offers offline reading via Google Apps, RSSOwl has long allowed it’s users to read feeds offline. In addition, it’s a great solution for those that use both Macs and PC’s as it works across platforms.

The latest version of it incorporates many new important features that enhance it such as a full screen mode, support for searches and improved notifier and multi-tabbed browsing. You can now add a password to your feeds although this is hardly the most essential thing you need in an RSS reader. The overall look of RSSOwl is very basic but it keeps things simple in order to make feeds easy to find and navigate.

I still won’t be changing to RSSOwl but as a lightweight cross platform solution, it’s a very well developed RSS reader.

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