If you are in need of a very easy to use translation tool, you may want to check out Translation.Net. Translate.Net is free and open source software which works easily as client to many language services available online (translators, monolingual and bilingual dictionaries).

A new version has just been released – Translate.Net 0.1.3154.43032 beta.

Currently this cool tool supports 26 sites with language services, 40 services, 39 languages, 1367 translations directions, including Google translator and dictionary, Wikipedia and Wiktionary, Yahoo Babel Fish Translator, SYSTRAN translator, Merriam-Webster dictionary and thesaurus.

You can see it’s a loaded weapon worth checking out.

More info and download available HERE

If you are not satisfied with the kind of service you are getting from popular FTP clients, you may want to try this out. FTP Now is a user-friendly FTP client that has a well-designed interface and is really easy to use.

It supports all standard FTP functions, plus Personal FTP Manager, 100% download resuming, beat disconnection, and more. It displays detailed information about your download while you are downloading from a ftp source.

The major CON with this tool is the price, approx $30. I think they would have made much more money calling it a freeware and accepting donations. I personally can’t shell out $30 for it, not that it is bad but when I remember I can use tools like Filezilla for free, my cash sticks to my wallet. But thank God for shareware, you could check out the trial version and if you prefer it to other less expensive or free ftp clients, then you can go ahead and buy it.

Argente is a company well known to people obsessed with the health of their computer. Something that is well known about them is that they tend to release updates for all of their different products en masse. In that spirit, one of their newest updates is to their Registry Cleaning Software, an update that was released earlier today. The update does not contain that much new information, but it does fix a few very important errors that were made in previous versions to the effect that you can now delete some registry errors that in the past would cause the program to stall.

Argente Registry Cleaner is definitely one of the best registry cleaning freeware products available on the market today. It has the ability to detect anything from a simple invalid shortcut right down to complicated file paths that are invalid as well. It searches through your entire computer for evidence of things that are not working and then eliminates those things from your registry. The end result is a far more efficient system with more resources available and better performance all around. While most registry cleaners are all talk and no action, Argente’s device will restore your faith in this class of software products.

More information is available at http://argentesoftware.blogspot.com/

The latest version of the GMax FLV Encoder was released just yesterday and already it has become very popular in the freeware internet world. The program is a capture application for files of audio and video natures. In fact, there are multiple different file formats for both audio and video supported by this DirectShow application and it can take any of those files and use them to continuously stream FLV feeds over the internet. For this reason, it is a very popular tool amongst developers that would like to do exactly that without having to go through YouTube or any of the other large video websites.

In addition to supporting multiple file formats, this program also has the added benefit of being able to support variation within file formats. For example, the resolution supported on a video file can be as large as 800 x 600 or as small as 160 x 120. Additionally, the audio quality supported through the streaming video on the internet can run the gamut from low quality to high quality depending on what you want for your particular situation. The GMax FLV Encoder can handle it all!

More information on this file can be found at http://gmax.gpnet.at/

Understanding what is present inside your computer is the key to ensuring that it runs smoothly at all times. The people that created IECacheView understand this and for that reason this program will help you with the lion’s share of that work. The vast majority of day-to-day changes made to system resources come from the internet for the average computer user nowadays and IECacheView can help you see exactly what is going on with your Internet Explorer.

All you have to do is open this piece of software and it will read the cache file of Internet Explorer, letting you know exactly which files are in there. Every file that is in your cache will have its name displayed as well as information regarding its function, location and history. There are ten columns in all, each providing you with a piece of information that falls into one of those categories. With that information, you can decide which files to keep and which files are just wasting your time. In particular, the last time the file was accessed is a great piece of information for knowing right away which files are not necessary for your day-to-day internet browsing needs.

More information on this program is available at http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ie_cache_viewer.html

There are a number of interesting freeware files on the market today, but there are few that are as interesting as Resources Extract. The latest version of this excellent piece of software was just released the other day and it contains a number of features that you will undoubtedly find very interesting.

For starters, Resources Extract has a primary function of being able to scan different file types and then remove resources from those files for your personal use in a separate folder of your choice. The files that it has the capability to scan are .dll, .ocx and .exe files and the resources that it can extract include .bmp, .avi and .html files primarily as well as a number of other formats for text, images, multimedia and a number of other things that might come in handy.

So, what exactly does this mean? Simply put, it means that you can go into any file with one of the three file extensions mentioned above and extract any resource from that file so long as it is one of the things the program can do. This allows you to borrow icons, pictures, movies and many other aspects of different files if you decide you like them and would like to use them somewhere else. This can be very useful, especially if you use my .exe files that would have things of that kind.

More information on this software is available at http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/resources_extract.html/

Command line is a place that many old time programmers are very familiar with, having been involved in using it throughout the earlier part of their computer career. For that reason, applications that invoke the command line structure are sometimes received very well (especially if they are freeware programs) and the Command Line Calculator is no exception to that rule.

The latest version of this software was just released a few days ago and works on every Windows system from Windows 98 all the way down to the present incarnation of Windows Vista. It is a very powerful calculator that you can use for general purpose calculations and it has well over sixty different functions built into its operation.

You have an unlimited length for the expressions that you place in the calculator and you can actually use it to define variables and plot graphs. In addition to the built-in functions, users can define new functions through using the old ones and all of the progress that they make in using the calculator can be saved in order to be used another time. Overall, this is an excellent piece of software.

More information on Command Line Calculator 2.10 is available at http://www.kotiposti.net/jjhalme/index.htm

There are many different browsers out there, but few have the best of both worlds quality to them that the Expedition browser brings to the table. It has all of the functionality of Internet Explorer, which is of course one of the most high-powered browsers to ever be released to the market. You can therefore use Expedition to browse multiple pages at once, drag links to the main bar and drop them there as well as block pop-ups with functionality build right into the actual browser code. You can also change the skin that the browser has and you can even use the RSS reader that it has built into itself in order to catch up on all your daily reading.

However, Expedition is not Internet Explorer and for that reason you can avoid a number of the different problems that the browser can sometimes bring to the table. These problems include things like lack of virus protection, high amount of targeting by different viruses and spyware programs specifically designed for Internet Explorer and problems with your registry that can come about as a result. None of these things are problems with Expedition, making it most definitely the best of both worlds.

More information on this software can be found at http://www.immsoft.net/

Argente is a very important company in the world of freeware because their free products that help keep your computer clean and error-free have been famous the world over for as long as the company has existed. At the same time as they released an update for their registry cleaning software, they also released an update for their disk cleaning software. Both pieces of software are critical to the fight against malware, spyware and disk fragmentation which is why you should try to download both of them and use them to your advantage together.

Argente Disk Cleaner functions as an ultra version of the disk defrag utility that comes with windows originally when it is installed on your computer. However, it goes well above and beyond what defrag can do, tracking down unnecessary files and destroying them completely. Any kind of temporary file or programs that might hamper privacy will be detected and removed by the disk cleaning software, allowing you to run a disk defragmentation in no time flat once you have used the disk cleaning software to get rid of anything that might hurt your progress.

More information on this software package is available at http://argentesoftware.blogspot.com/

There are many excellent software packages on the market today that make using your computer easier on a day-to-day basis, but few have the absolute simplicity that comes with the Stick program. Stick allows you to actually organize the different areas of your desktop through the use of screen tabs very much in the same way that you would organize a binder with the use of dividers. The only difference is that in the case of your desktop, the tabs represent different programs rather than different sections of paper within a binder.

You can create screen tabs for internet browsing, windows explorer, note-taking and monitoring any RSS feeds that you might have. In essence, you can create screen tabs for all of the different programs that you might access on a daily basis. These tabs will then live on the sides of your screen, allowing you to very quickly change back and forth between the different programs whenever you wish. In a sense, Stick is very much like a super-charged taskbar that is omnipresent on your desktop and for people that use many different programs in a single day, a program like Stick could save a lot of time indeed.

More information about Stick is available at http://www.iwonderdesigns.com/?s=stick