Jaangle (formerly Teen Spirit) is a free music player and organizer program that categorizes your mp3, ogg, wma, avi etc collection and displays it in easy to browse, user interface. It has a quality audio – video player and also an integrated tag editor. The software is very easy to use because all you need to do is add a folder that contains your music files (mp3, wma, avi, mpg etc). Jaangle scans and reads the available tag info. The artists appear in the tree like control; and each time you click on an artist all his tracks can be seen in the list pane. Artist biography and image are automatically downloaded from the internet and displayed in the information pane. By double clicking a track in the list you hear the music playing. More info may appear (if available) in the info pane like lyrics or comments.

Jaangle is easy to use, and also comes with features that you can easily get used to within a very short time. Some of its key features include the following; native Last FM Scrobbling support, player (Audio, video, equalizer, crossfading), quick web linking for extra info, MSN Messenger (Now Playing) support, renamer (Mass Renamer), and many more.

Want to check it out? Visit Jaangle.com.

DEKSI USB Security is a utility that allows you to prevent unauthorized USB devices from any computer or from your whole network. It prevents unauthorized USB devices from getting connected to your computer, blocks unauthorized USB devices such as memory card readers and USB flash drives, removable storage and USB hard disks while allowing devices such as keyboards, mice and printers to be used as they would normally be.

This program is very effective both in small offices and in corporations with very large networks. It offers centralized deployment and management, is helpful in enforcing security policies on removable storage devices, and it manages file transfers as well as prevents infections from viruses that can harm your computer or network.

DEKSI USB Security can be used to white-list devices such as printers, keyboards, scanners, mice and others that are considered safe while it can be used to block unauthorized USB devices access to your computer or network. You can assign specific passwords to removable storage devices in order to allow access to such removable devices. Such devices can then be accessed if the right password is correctly entered.

One very interesting thing about this program is that it runs entirely in the background, completely undetectable by the users. While in operation, there are no pop-up windows or windows unless you so desire it. While running completely undetected in the background, it is able to log all attempts to gain access to your USB devices, so that the system administrators can perform audits.

To find out more about this program, please visit Deksoftware.

FastStone Capture is a robust and very flexible screen capture program. It allows you to capture anything on the screen such as windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web-pages. It has powerful features such as floating Capture Panel, hotkeys, resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing, emailing and many more.

If you want to, you can send the screen captures to editor, printer or upload them to your website. Its powerful editing tools such as resizing, cropping, sharpening, watermarking etc can be used to give your screen captures better effects. You could also record your screen activities and save them as videos. FastStone Capture saves files in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF and PDF formats.

Some of the key features of this program includes: a capture panel that allows you to access its capture tools and output options easily, global hotkeys to setup instant screen capturing, apply text effects, resize, crop, sharpen or brighten colors and several more.

In FastStone Capture version 7.1, the publishers have added a few features to the older versions of this program. This new features includes: enhanced the in-built screen recorder, pause/resume support, enhanced the print dialog, enhanced capture scrolling window tool and improved compatibility with customer preview version of windows 8.

To find out more about this program, please visit Faststone.org.

WinToFlash starts is a wizard that will help pull over the contents of a windows installation CD or DVD and prep the USB drive to become a bootable replacement for the optical drive. It can also do this with your LiveCD; and that means you don’t have to worry about scratches on the disc or misplacing your original media discs once you transfer their contents to the flash drive. The optical drive is quickly becoming a thing of the past, especially in office environments, as media is shifted to the cloud. WinToFlash will easily and quickly install the program you need and in no time; and you will find yourself writing essays on Windows and using your USB.

WinToFlash can transfer your live CD or DVD to USB card, for example, BartPE. After all you can erase your USB media and format it with Windows for everyday use. Some of its other features and benefits include the following; support all editions of Windows – Home, Professional, Media Center, Ultimate, transfer a Recovery CD or a tiny OS (BartPE based on Windows XP/2003, WinPE based on Windows Vista/2008/7/8) to a USB drive, wipe a USB media (destroy all data on it), and many more.

Want to check it out? Visit WintoFlash.

IcoFX is a program that allows you to easily create, extract and edit icons. With an array of powerful tools and over 40 effects at your disposal, you can now you can readily convert your favorite images into icons or change your icons to images. IcoFx helps you to create limitless icons, create favicons for your websites or blogs, create icon libraries or edit icons inside exe files. You can also change your Mac icons to Windows or Windows icons to Mac icons. Using its batch processing capability, you can easily work with several files simultaneously.

Some of the key features of this program include the following: batch processing functionality allows you to work with many files, support for static and animated cursors, its array of collection correction tools allows you to refine color, saturation and brilliance and adjust for color contrast.  Using this program, you can create icon libraries and cursor libraries inside exe files, you can use the QuickMask to refine your image selection, convert your favorite images into icons, and vice versa into various formats and convert your favorite.

This program works well with the following system requirement: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Macintosh icons supporting transparency. It allows you to create Windows icons up to 256×256 for Windows Vista/7 and Macintosh icons up to 1024×1024 for Macintosh OSX 10.7 Lion.

If you want to find out more, please visit Icofx.

TestDisk is a powerful data recovery freeware. It was mainly designed to help recover lost partitions and to make disks that are not booting due to faulty software, viruses or human errors as in when you mistakenly delete your partition Table bootable again.

This program has features that are useful to both newbies and experts. For novices, TestDisk has can be very helpful in collecting information about a drive that is refusing to boot which can be further analyzed by techies. For the experts, this freeware comes in handy for carrying out onsite data recovery.

TestDisk can be used to recover deleted partitions, fix partition table, retrieve FAT 32 boot sector from its backup and fix FAT tables. It could also be used to rebuild NTFS boot sector and recover NTFS boot sector from its backup, use MFT mirror to fix MFT, retrieve deleted files from exFAT, FAT, NTFS and ext2 files.

This program can recover lost partitions from the following file systems: BeFS, BSD disklabel, CramFS, compressed file systems, DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 and several more file systems.

TestDisk can run under the following Operating Systems: DOS, Windows (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, Windows 7, Linux, Sun and Mac OS X.

To learn more about this freeware, please visit TestDisk.

Graph Earth is an application that enables marketing and other business professionals to create stunning visual representations of their data, all without the time and costs associated with a full-featured GIS. With it, you can create one of a kind deliverables and distribute them to the world, recipients need only install Google Earth to view the resulting standards compliant KML/KMZ files. Graph Earth is now suitably designed with some new additions and features to enable you carry out your task without any major difficulty. Some of the newly added features include the following; expanded territory map with many new features, visual HTML editor for KML file placemark descriptions, support for optional attribution elements, allowing Google to better find your documents, KML file rendering speed enhanced for large KML files, and lots of other usability enhancements.

Graph Earth is an advanced program that requires some technical skills to use; and that means non professionals may find it a bit difficult to get used to it. Some of its advanced features include the following; four basic 3D graph/map types (bar, chloropleth, prism and territory), embedded statistics and descriptions (global and local), embedded 2D Charts (via Google Charts), screen overlays which allow you to show customized legends, titles and organization graphics (logo), simple spreadsheet style interface, and many more.

Want to check it out? Visit: Graphearth.

Google Drive is a synchronization tool for Google’s online storage service. If you are a Mac or PC user this is a dedicated synchronization tool that enables you to keep a local folder in sync with your online storage – add or remove a file in either location and the changes will be reflected in the other. The essence of the program can best be appreciated when the need arises to store large files, and still be able to access them from home, office or just anywhere. Though, a lot of people would prefer offline storage; Google Drive is still a highly recommended way to keep your files safe without going through a lot of stress. You can start with 5 GB free storage according to the publisher; and that is not a bad way to start.

Google Drive enables you to share files with exactly who you want and edit them together, from any device. It also gives you instant access to Google Docs, a suite of editing tools that makes working together better; even when your teammates are miles away. However, users are required to pay $2.50 per month when they upgrade to 25 GB of storage.

Want to check it out? Visit Drive.Google.com.