Auslogics Disk Defrag - Fast And Easy To Use Defragmenter

If you are looking for a defragmenter to speed up your computer, I would recommend IObit Smart Defrag and Defraggle and Auslogics Disk Defrag. The first two softwares have been introduced before, and here is Auslogics Disk Defrag's review.

Auslogics Disk Defrag is a compact, safe and fast defragmenter. Easy is its advantage, just one-click to defrag, like the Windows its own defragmenter, for sure Auslogics Disk Defrag is much more powerful.

AllVideoDownloader - Download Videos From 280+ Streaming Sites

AllVideoDownloader is a free and tiny application to download clips from more than 280 videos websites. With it, you can download videos from YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Google Video, Yahoo Video, Myspace, etc.

This software is similar to ClipGrab，ClipGrab supports less websites, but it is cross-platform for Windows, Mac and Linux. AllVideoDownloader is only for Windows. 

Free Office Suite - LibreOffice 3.3 Final Released

LibreOffice is a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms. The goal is to produce a vendor-independent office suite with ODF support and without any copyright assignment requirements. As free software, users are free to download, modify, use and distribute LibreOffice. 

Vox: A Lightweight Music Player For Mac OS X

If you do not like the excessive iTunes, and just want find a simple music player for Mac，Vox is a choice.

Reduce Your Aim Of Cursor With Preme for Windows 7

Preme for Windows7 is a tiny and easy-to-use system optimizer tool, with it, you can enhance desktop and mouse features of Windows 7, Mac OS X users must be very familiar to users this.

Main function is to stimulate the potential of the four corners of the desktop, you can easily switch windows by moving your cursor to a setted screen corner, at the same time, you can customize a shoortcut key.

Beautify 7-Zip Easily With 7-Zip Theme Manager

7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver with a high compression ratio. But its oringinal theme is so simple (or should say ugly), maybe because of this, lots of users missed this nice software.

Here is a program for beautifying 7-Zip, 7-Zip Theme Manager. With it, you can change the theme just in two steps: choose a theme, then click "Active" buttom.

• Homepage http://www.7ztm.de.vu/

One Day A Free Shareware

If you like sharewares, this post is for you ;) Today I recommend a software website to you. Every day this site offers for a free licensed Windows software.

It's Giveaway of the Day.

• HomePage: http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

A Free DVD Video Transcoder For Windows, Mac OS X And Linux

HandBrake is an open-source video transcoder designed to convert MPEG video (including DVD-Video) into an MPEG-4 video file (.mp4) or .mkv containers.

This software is used to convert DVDs into other forms so they can be viewed on iPods, iPhones. It is available for Mac, Windows and Linux.

•  Home page: http://handbrake.fr/

Three DirectX 11 Benchmark Tool

3DMark 11 is not the only DirectX 11 benchmark tool, here are three different benchmarks.

•  DirectX Software Development Kit

This tool is provided by Microsoft. You can get the latest DX SDK at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/directx/aa937781  Latest version:

9.29.1962 (500M+)

•  Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark

Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. is an arcade flight video game. Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark is a stand-alone benchmark released by Ubisoft. You need a www.ubisoft.com account to use this benchmark.

Download at http://games.softpedia.com/get/Tools/Tom-Clancys-HAWX-2-Benchmark.shtml (700M+)

Prey - Anti-theft Software For Windows, Mac, Linux & Android Phones

Prey is a free and open-source software, it helps you keep track of your phone or laptop at all times, and will help you find it if it ever gets lost or stolen.

Latest Prey features include wifi autoconnect, an alarm system, screenshot grabbing, hardware scanning and webcam capturing, etc. All of these functions are managed as modules, which can be activated on demand by the user, and new functions can be added by adding new modules.

Free Download The 3DMark 2011 Basic Edition( Benchmark for DirectX 11)

3DMark is the world’s most popular computer benchmarking tool for measuring the 3D graphics performance. In 3DMark Vantage released two and a half years later, the latest 3DMark 11 is launched which is designed for testing DirectX 11 hardware running on Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Fortunately, there's a free edition.

So if you are still in use Windows XP, or graphics only support DirectX 9, 10. You can try the early version 3DMark 06 or 3DMark Vantage.

3DMark 11 Basic Edition is free to use and allows an unlimited number of benchmark runs without registration or expiry. And now, except English, 3DMark 11 supports German, simplified/traditional Chinese & Finnish.

• Download @ http://www.3dmark.com/

TeamViewer (Remote Desktop Control) 6 Released With iPhone/Android Support

Image via CrunchBaseTeamViewer is a free and cross-platform remote desktop control software. It supports Windows, Mac and Linux (wine). TeamViewer version 6 was just released several days ago, in this new version, it supports iPhone, iPad, and Android !

Imagine that you control the computer using an iPhone/Android mobile, it is neat!

How To: Check If Your CPU Is 32-bit Or 64-bit

Here are two tiny softwares to help you check if your CPU ( or Windows) is 32-bit or 64-bit. The first is 64bit Checker,

Features

• shows if your computer is running a 32bit or 64bit version of Windows
• detects whether your processor supports a 64bit operating systems (if you are not sure that you can install 64bit operating system on your computer)
• copy report information to clipboard, or save in text or html file

Top 10 Cross-Platform BitTorrent Clients

Here is a list of top 10 free and cross-platform BitTorrent softwares, each of them is popular and worth a try. Apart from BitTorrent and µTorrent, other clients are open source softwares.

 1. BitTorrent (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)

BitTorrent was the first client written for BitTorrent protocol.
BitTorrent, Inc's software client allows you to quickly download high-quality digital content such as video, music, and games. Available in over 20 languages, it leverages our community of over 70 million users to securely deliver files to your PC faster than anything else out there. BitTorrent was written in Python. Since version 6.0 the BitTorrent client has been a rebranded version of µTorrent. And now it is no longer open source.

There's no special description needed for this old BitTorrent client.


2. µTorrent (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)

µTorrent (or uTorrent) is the second most popular BitTorrent client (after the Chinese Xunlei).

µTorrent is a freeware, closed source BitTorrent client by BitTorrent, Inc. It is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. All versions are written in C++. Very tiny, efficient and full-featured.

 A variety of skins and languages. At the same time, µTorrent has an  App Studio.


3. Vuze (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)

Vuze (previously Azureus) is a BitTorrent client written in Java, and uses the Azureus Engine. In addition to downloading data linked to by .torrent files, Azureus allows users to view, publish and share original DVD and HD quality video content.

Azureus offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents. Azureus now features an embedded tracker easily set up and ready to use. Azureus also offers a range of plugins.


4. Transmission (Mac OS X, Linux)

Transmission is Ubuntu's default BitTorrent manager. It features a very simple, intuitive interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end.

It has native Mac, GTK+ and Qt GUI clients, and it can be remote controlled by Web and Terminal clients. It supports add-ons.

Simple interface and Low resource usage are its best features.


5. BitTornado (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)

BitTornado is a bittorrent client built on the original BitTorrent
client from BitTorrent Inc. This client features a console and curses mode, and is one of the original bittorrent clients created. It is programmed using Python, the interface is very simple and even a bit ugly.

But it's rather lightweight and easy to use.



6. Miro (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)

Miro is an Internet television application, a wonderful video player and torrent downloader. You can search, download, and save videos from YouTube, Google Video, Blip, and more.

The program supports most known video files and offers sound and video, some in HD quality. Miro should be the most special one of these 10 softwares, it is a video player, BitTorrent manage is just one of its function.

It also supports RSS BitTorrent. When a new video is available, the program will notify and download if possible. 



7. MLDonkey (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)

MLDonkey is an open source, multi-protocol, p2p file sharing application that runs as a back-end server application on many platforms. It can be controlled through a user interface provided by one of many separate front-ends, including a Web interface, telnet interface and over a dozen native client programs.

Like Miro, BitTorrent isn't its only function. It supports the following network protocols, either partially or completely:
          o Ed2k
          o Overnet
          o BitTorrent
          o Kad Network
          o Direct Connect
          o HTTP/FTP


8. Deluge (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)

Deluge is a full-featured, multi-platform, multi-interface BitTorrent client.
Meantime,


Deluge is a lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client. It aims to be a lightweight, secure, and feature-rich client with Plugin System.

Portable version is available at  PortableApps.



9. qBittorrent (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)

BitTorrent client written in C++ and based on libtorrent-rasterbar with a Qt4
user interface. qBittorrent is a feature rich but lightweight client that is
very similar to uTorrent.

The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µtorrent. Additionally, qBittorrent runs and provides the same features on all major platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD).


10. KTorrent (Windows, Linux)

KTorrent is a BitTorrent client written in C++ for KDE using the Qt user interface toolkit. It is maintained in the KDE Extragear.

Obviously, KTorrent supports such basic features
as downloading, uploading and seeding files on the BitTorrent network.
However, lots of other additional features and intuitive GUI should make
KTorrent a good choice for everyone. Some features are available as plugins
hence you should make sure you have the ones you need enabled. It takes very little system resources.


Personally, I'm using Transmission & MLDonkey under Ubuntu, both of them have a low resource usage, especially MLDonkey, if you control it just via web, You can hardly feel its presence. Although µTorrent is not an open-source software, I still like it and hope for the improvement of its Linux client.

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Happy Birthday To MPlayer!

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2010.11.11, MPlayer is ten years old now!

MPlayer is a free and open source media player. It was originally called "MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux". As it is available for all major operating systems including Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, so later, developers are later shortened to "MPlayer - The Movie Player".

The MPlayer project was started because Arpi (the original author) was unable to find any satisfactory video players for Linux. The development was began in 2000, and the first MPlayer version is v0.01: http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/old_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.01.tar.gz  Already ten years, mplayer now is definitely a great media player!

An Anti-Frustration Software - Soluto

You will find that your Windows system become more and more slowly after a few months after use, this may be caused by a variety of causes like too much junk files and startup apps, virus, disk fragmentation, etc.

For the proficient users who have access to computers for a long time, they must have some measures in response, but there is still a lot of newbies to PCs, they may get a deeply frustrating experience.

Soluto is such a simple-to-use software can convince the millions of frustrated PC users to use their software. It allows you to understand your boot, discover which applications are slowing it down, then it will give you a solution to speed up your system boot! ( Soluto is the winner of 2010 TechCruch Disrupt. )

FastStone Image Viewer

FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, tiny image browser, converter and editor that supports all major graphic formats like BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG and ICO. It has a nice array of features such as image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, watermarks, resizing, cropping, color adjustments, musical slideshow and more.

Comodo System Cleaner

Image via WikipediaIf you have paid some attention to To Be Free ! , Comodo should be a familiar name to you, I introduced several Comodo products before. The software company's main products are security software category, best known for its firewall, but it also provides some other nice free softwares.

The software today to introduced is also from Comodo - Comodo System Cleaner. It is a suite of utilities and tools that allow you to make your computer faster, more efficient and more secure.
Now let's take a look at its functions!

A Free & Cross-Platform Image Viewer - XnViewMP

You may have heard or used the famous image viewer and converter - XnView before, it is a cross-platform image viewer used for viewing, converting, organising and editing graphical & video files. Today I'll introduce XnView's new version -  XnViewMP.

XnViewMP (XnView Multi Platform) will eventually replace all other versions of XnView (*nix and Mac OS X and Windows) using the same source code for all platforms and is intended to have a unified look and feel. It will have native unicode support and be able to load full bit depth pictures, easier handling of native language support (text based files) and a better database.
 

Back In Time: A Simple Backup Tool For Linux (GNOME & KDE4)

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Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux. The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories and you only need to specify 3 things: where to save snapshots, what to backup and backup frequency.

It's creating multiple snapshots with only one stuff, so it saves a lot of hard disk space for you. At the same time, you could customize its auto-remove option. Back in time's restore function is also easy to use - choose a snapshot & choose folders from it, then hit "Restore", that's all ;)