Here is a freeware alternative to expensive CD and DVD burners. It is called FinalBurner FREE.

FinalBurner FREE enables you to create data, audio, DVD disks and burn them onto any type of media, such as CD R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD DL.  The fact that you can also easily create an ISO image of a disk makes this really cool. Combining all the elements of a professional CD recorder and delivered with a convenient user interface, FinalBurner is a must have, it costs you nothing anyways, its freeware.

Designed with features so simple, you don’t need to be an expert to make use of it, Final Burner FREE restricts the complex process of CD recording to a few mouse clicks. But it’s not only a newbie delight, advanced users will benefit from the opportunity to be in full control of many settings that affect the burning process and the quality of the result.

FinalBurner is also available in the FinalBurner PRO edition which unlike Final Burner FREE is shareware.

Want to give the freeware a shot first? Visit http://www.protectedsoft.com/products.php

want to know the difference between the FREE and the PRO versions, go to http://www.protectedsoft.com/fbprovsfree.php
 

If you are interested in a piece of software that allows you to download torrent files for free and one that is easy to use, then BitComet is definitely the piece of software for you. This is a particularly full featured and powerful bittorrent client that allows you to download any torrent file.  It allows for easy multiple downloads that you can track at the same time and even allows you to queue dozens if not hundreds of different files all for your downloading pleasure.

The latest version of BitComet is version 0.97 and it was released on December 7, 2007.  The main changes that were made in this version are primarily changes to the graphical user interface in which different GUI bugs were fixed and functionality overall was improved and extended to different areas such as link support for downloads that are currently going on within the dialogue box.   There were also core patches added on that fixed different issues that affected the core of the actual programming and therefore different crashes that people might have experienced before have now been fixed by the BitComet creator.

More information is available at http://www.bitcomet.com/

StuffPlug is a free add-on that adds some extra features to Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger).

Some of these additional features are the ability to boost the character limit. This allows you to send as many as 5,000 characters per message in a conversation, very useful if you have to copy and paste something long to someone.

You can also have a small customizable time zone clock under the user picture of the person you’re currently talking with,useful for those of us with friends in other timezones. Another feature is the ability to flash an LED light such as caps or number lock if you recieve a message while you’re in a full screen application or game.

It includes many more features, with varying degrees of usefulness,but you only have to select the ones you like. For the full details of all features, check out the homepage here where you can read more info and download it.

If you don’t like having pornographic pictures on your system or you just want to censor what your kids see on your system, then this tool my come in handy. It is called Media Detective.

Media Detective is a tool for helping you remove pornographic media from your PC. How does it work?

It scans media files on the computer, such as pictures and movies, to check whether they contain adult content. This is accomplished by opening and inspecting the files for skin tone present. The files are then rated according to their potential for obscenity and are displayed. You are then free to delete according to your discretion.

Want to check it out? Go to http://www.mediadetective.com/

Need a tool to take screenshots and thumbnails easily? This should help you out.

WebShot is a simple utility that gives you the ability to take screenshots and thumbnails of webpages or websites.  With this simple but tool software you can take screenshots of a single webpage or screenshots of multiple webpages in batch mode. But the simplicity should not turn you off if you are an advanced kind of user because Webshot also comes with a command line executable for advanced users.

In the recently released version there are  new changes including:

• Fixed multi-threaded async pluggable protocol
• Compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Want to try it out? It’s freeware!!! Go to http://www.websitescreenshots.com/

Here is a useful tool that should come in handy, it is called UrlSearch.

UrlSearch extracts web addresses and other text strings from local and remote files. The good thing about this tool is that with it, results can be edited and exported in various ways. Web addresses can be sorted by domains and exported to your browser’s bookmarks (Netscape, Internet Explorer or Opera).

One other useful feature of UrlSearch is the fact that it can also be used as a Download agent and can view history and cookie files, edit ‘Typed Urls’ lists, and calculate hit rates.

Want to check it out?  You will find it at http://freenet-homepage.de/h.ulbrich/

In case you like to display images in an elegant manner for all to see; you can try creating a web gallery. Html Web Gallery Creator 1.0 software presents you the features that would help you to make an exquisite image gallery. Making web galleries was never so easy and simple that it could be done by even a normal user. Best part is that you can have a lot of fun while making the gallery for publishing on the website.

With this interesting software, all your pictures would make up such a beautiful gallery with so many effects that would catch up the eye. The screen of the software is dull looking but the options and the tasks that it performs are effective. You can have the folder loaded with the program for making the gallery. You can save the project so that you won’t loose the gallery configuration that you set for the one you made. The pictures are loaded with the program and they are shown in the sequence form at the screen. You can click on the image or scroll between the images through the previous and next option. You can set the picture appearance by rotating it through the right click of the mouse. Read the rest of this entry »

Now you can enjoy movies and videos with whole new exciting features that would make your movie viewing a whole lot more appealing. 5star Movie Enhancer 1.0.7.1026 software allows you to improve and enlarge the videos without any special technical skills. The software 5star Movie Enhancer 1.0.7.1026 is worthy to be bought as it performs different functions in an effortless and user friendly manner.

5star Movie Enhancer 1.0.7.1026 software would not be taking much of your precious time to get downloaded and it get installed in no time so that you get more time for having fun watching the videos. When you launch the program a very pleasing screen appears in front of you. The software provides the best viewing experience and lets you to create High Definition videos from the normal DVD-Video. While having the changes done you can also watch the videos with the in-built player that it has. It will help you to get rid of the black borders like problems and you would definitely enjoy the excitement with the full screen view. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re fond of music you must be having a large collection at your system. But as it increases don’t you think it becomes real hectic to manage them all. Now, you won’t need to worry as you can get all your music files arranged according to your wish and get any file whenever you want. To do this you need to get Music Collection 2.04.620 software that helps you to keep proper track of the music files.

Music Collection 2.04.620 software helps you to manage the files so that it becomes easy for you to track them. Download and install the software at your PC for getting the work done. Launch the software and get the options that are much convenient to use. You can get the files with placed with a tree structure. You can seek for the music files according to your selected categories. Get the collection set by the artists, albums, etc and arrange them in different fields. Set the collection, choose your favorites and record the lyrics for enjoying each line of the song. The list of the songs is shown according to selected category on the screen.

Looking for a particular file you can have the files sorted with alphabetical order also. Keeping a track of when you added new files becomes easier with the history option. Want to keep any notes or have any thing recorded or write anything you also have the notepad attached to the program. Enjoy the music at the same time through the in-built player or even an external player. Keep a check on the memory status and choose the settings according to your needs. It also gives you the browser access for getting more music with you. You also get the help guide that would assist you to arrange your music files in the best manner. Read the rest of this entry »

Macintosh users can now make their video viewing experience be a bit different and a lot more interesting with YourView 1.0.1 software that also allows them to share the videos. The software can be used by anyone without any difficult as the options are easy to learn and operate. With the YourView 1.0.1software you can tag and navigate the videos in various ways.

Getting the software downloaded and installed would take just a few clicks. The screen of the program is good and pleasing but not flashy. You can create files and edit the videos according to your liking. You can make the videos more amazing by adding up different effects and making the video including the features from the options that you want to have.

The screen of the software shows the video on the upper left side so that you can know about the changes altogether. You can prepare demos or tutorials from the videos that you have taken. You can make the selection for the name, category and also set the start and end time. It also has the option for ratings and lead in, lead out option. The features as tutorials and icons are shown on the right side if the screen. You can select and deselect the selections made by you any time and put new changes to the video you’re making. The simple working features like ‘Remove’, ‘Apply’, ‘Edit’, ‘Delete’, etc are placed on the screen itself for your convenience.  Read the rest of this entry »