GOM Player

GOM is a FREE media player with popular audio & video codecs built-Codec Finder

GOM Player includes many codecs (XviD, DivX, FLV1, AC3, OGG, MP4, H263 and more) so you won't need to install separate codecs for most videos. For those videos that require a separate codec, GOM Player will find one.
Play Broken AVI Files (Patented)
GOM Player's patented technology enables users to view files with broken indexes or that are still being downloaded.
Powerful Subtitle Support
GOM Player supports SMI, SRT, RT, SUB(with IDX) files for subtitle. You can even synchronize subtitle and video if there's any mismatch.
Convenient Playlist
If you run a video file and there is already a file with a similar name in the directory, it will be automatically added to your playlist. GOM Player has a similar playlist format as M3U, PLS, ASX.
Support Different Media Types
Along with different media format such as AVI, MPG, MPEG and DAT, GOM Player also supports streaming Windows media format (WMV, ASF, ASX). You can also watch DVD-quality videos with 5.1 channel audio output.

RealPlayer

RealPlayer has always enabled you to play RealAudio (*.ra) and RealMedia (*.ram) files.

• Download videos from thousands of Web sites with just one click
• Build your own video library and playlists
• Play all major audio and video formats
• Flash Video support
• DVD, SVCD, VCD burning and video recording

RealPlayer for personal use includes audio CD burning capabilities, DVR-style playback buffering, multimedia search, Internet radio, a jukebox-style file library, an embedded web browser (using Microsoft Internet Explorer), and the ability to transfer media to a number of portable devices, including Apple's iPod, MP3 players, and Windows Media devices.

The best thing that you will find after installing it is the Flash videos Download Directly from YouTube.
It has an inbuilt plugin that enables you to download the video by showing a download video link right above the video as soon as you play the video.

Yahoo! Messenger

Keep friends at your fingertips with the new Yahoo! Messenger:

• Easier ways to stay up to date - See more updates from your friends in the detailed Messenger list
• Show off your status - Easily add links and emoticons to your status messages
• Watch videos together - Share videos from popular sites and watch them with friends right in your IM window

          Other features include:

1. Instant message with one friend, or conference in a bunch
2. Send text messages (SMS) to friends' mobile phones
3. Join a chat room to meet new friends while you discuss your favorite topics
4. Make free PC-to-PC calls and PC-to-phone calls for as low as 1¢ a minute (plus free voicemail!)
5. Use the built-in media player to watch web videos and view photos with friends
6. Show your style with emoticons, Avatars, audibles and IMVironments
7. Share securely with automatic file scanning for users of Norton AntiVirus or Internet Security 2007/2008

Windows Live Messenger

Windows Live Messenger makes it easier than ever to stay connected to the people you care about.

• Favorites and groups - Put the people you chat with most at the top of your contacts, so you easily see when they're online. Want to chat with several people in one window? Just set up a group.
• Share photos - Look at photos together, right in the conversation window. And Messenger tells you when people you know post new photos on Windows Live.
• Customize - Show off your personal style with custom scenes, animated display pictures, and signature sounds.
• Mobile and web - Using a public computer without Messenger? No problem! You can chat on the web from Windows Live Hotmail. Or, use Messenger on your mobile phone.

Get Messenger and stay in touch.

Skype

Skype is software for calling other people on their computers or phones. Download Skype and start calling for free all over the world.

The calls have excellent sound quality and are highly secure with end-to-end encryption. You don't even need to configure your firewall or router or any other networking gear.

Additionally it doesn't just work on Windows. Skype is also for Mac OS X, Linux and PDAs using Pocket PC, with a native look and feel for each platform. Talking, sending instant messages or even file transfers work between different platforms like a charm.

• Skype calling - Skype has all the features of an ordinary phone so it's even easier to manage your calls.
• Video calling - see who you are talking to at the same time as speaking to them.
• Add Skype and SkypeOut contacts - Add contacts who use Skype and those who use ordinary phones so you can call more people.
• Organising groups - group contacts under certain names and share them with your contacts so they can talk to them too.
• Basic chat and emoticons - when it's not convenient to call, chat or Instant Message (IM) your contacts.
• Group chat - for when it's easier to chat or Instant Message (IM) all your friends at once.
• Profile settings - change how you appear to the world and let people know a bit about you.
• Conference calling - talk to more than one friend at a time.
• Import contacts - search your address book to find friends and family that already have a Skype name and start calling them for free.
• View Outlook contacts - view and call your Microsoft Outlook® contacts quickly and directly from your Skype contact list.
• Quickfilter and Speed-Dial - find Skype contacts, recent chats and SkypeOut contacts quickly and easily, then enter their Skype name to call them back quickly.

Google Talk a.k.a. Gtalk

The Google Talk downloadable application for Windows offers many features for communicating with your friends and family.

Instant messaging - Chat with all of your Google Talk and Gmail contacts in real time.

Free PC-to-PC voice chat - You can talk to anyone else for free who's online and has the Google Talk client.

Send and receive voicemails - If the person you're calling isn't available, you can leave a voicemail.

Unlimited file transfers - Send files to your contacts. There are no file size or bandwidth restrictions.

Gmail notifications on your desktop - When you're signed into Google Talk, you'll be notified of new messages in your Gmail inbox.

Google Earth

Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others.

Google Earth's features include:

See global changes with decades of historic imagery

If you've ever wondered how your neighborhood has changed throughout time, Google Earth now gives you access to the past. With a simple click, check out suburban sprawl, melting ice caps, coastal erosion, and more.

Dive beneath the surface of the ocean

In the new ocean layer, you can plunge all the way to the floor of the sea, view exclusive content from partners like BBC and National Geographic, and explore 3D shipwrecks like the Titanic.

Track and share your paths with others

Take placemarks a step further and record a free-form tour in Google Earth. Simply turn on the touring feature, press record, and see the world. You can even add a soundtrack or narration to personalize the journey.

Adobe Reader

Adobe Reader software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files.

• View, print, and search PDF files, including PDF Portfolios and PDF maps
• Author, store, and share documents, and share your screen, using Acrobat.com services
• Experience richer content and greater interactivity with native support for Adobe Flash technology
• Review documents using familiar commenting tools such as sticky notes, highlighting, lines, shapes, and stamps (When enabled by     Acrobat Pro or Acrobat Pro Extended)
• Digitally sign PDF documents (When enabled by Acrobat Pro or Acrobat Pro Extended)

Google Desktop

Google Desktop makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google. It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you've viewed, and more. By making your computer searchable, Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks.

Google Desktop doesn't just help you search your computer; it also helps you gather new information from the web and stay organized with gadgets and sidebar. Google Gadgets can be placed anywhere on your desktop to show you new email, weather, photos, personalized news, and more. Sidebar is a vertical bar on your desktop that helps you keep your gadgets organized.

Other features include:

• Quick search box
• Smart indexing
• Multiple file types
• Find deleted files
• Deskbar and floating deskbar
• Lock search
• Microsoft Outlook integration

Avast! Antivirus Free

avast! Free Antivirus represents the best free antivirus protection currently available on the market. This edition is FREE OF CHARGE for non-commercial & home use. 

   Its features include:

• Anti-spyware built-in
• Web Shield
• Anti-rootkit built-in
• Automatic updates
• Strong self-protection
• Virus Chest
• Antivirus kernel
• System integration
• Simple User Interface
• Integrated Virus Cleaner
• Resident protection
• Support for 64-bit Windows
• P2P and IM Shields
• Internationalization
• Network Shield

DAEMON tools

With DAEMON Tools you can back up your physical CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray discs into "virtual discs" or so called "disc image" files, which run directly on your hard drive. You can also work with images created by other burning programs! DAEMON Tools supports variety of image types. Use CD/DVD image converter to have one format images in your Image Catalog!

1. Emulate virtual CD/DVD-ROM/HD DVD and Blu-ray drives

DAEMON Tools Lite [Commercial] enables you to emulate up to 4 CD/DVD virtual drives on your PC. Virtual drives will appear in your OS just like real ones. Select a virtual drive then choose a disc image you want to mount. Find the created virtual drive with mounted disc image in My Computer. Start working! Looks like working with a real drive and a real disc, doesn't it? Yes, but it is much faster!

2. Create a disc image

With DAEMON Tools Lite [Commercial] you can create ISO and MDS image files from original discs inserted in physical CD/DVD/HD DVD/Blu-ray drives. Or use images you have created earlier with other program. DAEMON Tools products work with variety of image types.

Key features

• creates *.iso and *.mds images;
• emulates up to 4 virtual CD/DVD drives;
• performs image mounting and unmounting;
• supports *.b5t, *.b6t, *.bwt, *.ccd, *.cdi, *.cue, *.nrg, *.pdi, *.isz;
• offers powerful command line interface.

K-Lite Codec Pack media player classic

The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding audio and video formats. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your audio and movie files.

With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular audio and video formats and even several less common formats.

The K-Lite Codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs:

• It is updated frequently. So it is always up-to-date with the newest and/or best components.
• All components have been carefully selected for specific purposes. It is not just a random bunch of stuff thrown together.
• It is very user-friendly and easy to use.
• The installation is fully customizable, meaning that you are able to install just those components that you really want.
• The customization abilities even go beyond the component level. Some components are able to handle multiple formats. You can specify exactly which components should handle which formats. The pack can thus be fully tweaked to your own specific needs and preferences.
• Uninstallation removes everything that was installed by the pack. Including all registry keys.
• It is extremely easy to make a fully customized unattended installation with the integrated wizard.
• It does not contain any bad, buggy or unstable codecs.

Requirements:

Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64

License:

Freeware

iTunes

iTunes is a free application for Mac and PC. It plays all your digital music and video. It syncs content to your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. And it's an entertainment superstore that stays open 24/7.

• Organize your music into playlists
• Edit file information
• Record compact discs
• Copy files to an iPod or other digital audio player
• Purchase music and videos on the Internet through the built-in iTunes store
• Run a visualizer to display graphical effects in time to the music
• Encode music into a number of different audio formats.

32-bit version
64-bit version

TeraCopy

TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features:

• Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.
• Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.
• Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.
• Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.
• Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.
• Full Unicode support.

7-Zip

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.

The main features of 7-Zip are:

• High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
• Supported packing / unpacking formats: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
• Supported formats for unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.
• Compression ratio for ZIP and GZIP formats: 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
• Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
• Self-extracting capability for 7z format
• Integration with Windows Shell

For 32-bit
For 64-bit

FileZilla

FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.

Among others, the features of FileZilla include the following:

• Easy to use
• Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
• IPv6 support
• Available in many languages
• Supports resume and transfer of large files greater than 4GB
• Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
• Bookmarks
• Drag & drop support
• Configurable transfer speed limits
• Filename filters
• Network configuration wizard
• Remote file editing
• Keep-alive
• HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5 and FTP-Proxy support
• Logging to file

Requirements:

Windows XP / 2003 / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 License: Open Source

FlashGet

Want faster downloads and easier management of downloaded files? Then you need FlashGet.

If you've ever waited forever for your files to download from a slow connection, or been cut off mid-way through a download - or just can't keep track of your ever-growing downloads - FlashGet is for you.

FlashGet can split downloaded files into sections, downloading each section simultaneously, for an increase in downloading speed from 100% to 500%. This, coupled with FlashGet's powerful and easy-to-use management features, helps you take control of your downloads like never before.

      FlashGet offers these features:

• Optimizes use of system resources so it doesn't slow down your system.
• Calls anti-virus automatically to scan downloaded files.
• 100% free, with no ad-ware, spyware, or malware.
• Increases download speed and stability.
• Supports HTTP, FTP, Bittorrent, eMule and other protocols.
• Powerful files management feature.

Requirements:

Windows (All Versions) License: Freeware

Defraggler

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.

When Defraggler reads or writes a file, it uses the exact same techniques that Windows uses. Using Defraggler is just as safe for your files as using Windows.

At a glance, you can see how fragmented your hard drive is. Defraggler's drive map shows you blocks that are empty, not fragmented, or needing defragmentation.

• Give your hard drive a quick touch-up with Quick Defrag
• Organizes empty disk space to further prevent fragmentation
• Defragment while you sleep - and wake up with a faster PC. Set Defraggler to run daily, weekly or monthly
• Full Windows OS and Multi-lingual support
• Boot time defrag of system files
• Supports 37 major languages

Defraggler is made by Piriform, the company that also brought you CCleaner and Recuva, so is completely free!

Requirements:

Windows XP / 2003 / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 License: Freeware

CCleaner

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware! :)

     Cleans the following:

• Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Opera
• Safari
• Windows - Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files and Log files.
• Registry cleaner
• Third-party applications
• 100% Spyware FREE

Requirements:

Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 License: Freeware

VLC

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols without external codec or program.

It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

VLC can play:

• MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and so on
• DVDs, VCDs, and Audio CDs
• From satellite cards (DVB-S)
• Several types of network streams: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP, RTSP, MMS, etc.
• From acquisition or encoding cards (on GNU/Linux and Windows only)

Requirements:

Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 Supports Mac OS X: * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling. Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin: * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32                                         Click here