Mozilla Firefox

                    Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. As of October 2010^[update], Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with 30% of worldwide usage share of web browsers.

                    The latest Firefox features include tabbed browsing, spell checking, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, private browsing, location-aware browsing (also known as "geolocation") based exclusively on a Google service and an integrated search system that uses Google by default in most localizations. Functions can be added through extensions, created by third-party developers, of which there is a wide selection, a feature that has attracted many of Firefox's users.Firefox runs on various operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and many other platforms. Its current stable release is version 3.6.13, released on December 9, 2010^[update]. Firefox's source code is tri-licensed under the GNU GPL, GNU LGPL, or Mozilla Public License.

                      A screenshot of the program is shown below:

CCleaner

                CCleaner (formerly Crap Cleaner), developed by Piriform is a donationware utility program used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer. It can be employed to uninstall programs. In addition, CCleaner allows the alteration of start-up programs, similar to the Microsoft Windows MSConfig utility. Users can disable start-up programs. CCleaner also allows users to delete system restore points.CCleaner was first released on 23 September 2003, and its latest version 3.02.1343 was released on 23 December 2010.
                This program can also be downloaded from the following link:

                                                      www.fileserve.com/file/vpkzKXp

                A screenshot of the program is shown below:

Download Accelerator Plus(DAP)

                   Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) is the world's most popular download manager with over 200 million installs worldwide. DAP accelerates your download speed so you can get all your favorite files, applications, and videos as fast as possible. Additionally, DAP features powerful privacy, security, and file management tools letting you download with confidence and flexibility. DAP is easy to use, working automatically with your web browser to provide the fastest download speed possible. Support for the fast Google Chrome browser has been added, and DAP's download process has been optimized for even more powerful performance. In DAP you can download your favorite videos from YouTube and other popular video sites at accelerated speeds with a Video Downloader expansion. Downloading is safer as well thanks to innovative download security powered by SpeedBit's Multi Antivirus (MAV) Analysis that lets you compare what the leading Antivirus programs have to say about your downloads. DAP is available in 39 languages, with translations provided by users working on the SpeedBit Translation Wiki Project.
                    DAP can be downloaded from its official site, http://www.speedbit.com/, following the given link :
                       http://www.brothersoft.com/download-download-accelerator-plus-71682.html

                    A screenshot of the program is shown below:

Picasa

              Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend f the name of famed Spanish painter Pablo Picasso; the phrase mi casa for "my house", and "pic" for pictures (personalized art). In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa and began offering it as a free download. The latest version of Picasa is 3.8 which supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Features

             The features of picasa include organization and editing, keywords, searching, viewing, backup, face recognition and geotagging.

Other Picasa applications

  Picasa Web Albums

             Picasa Web Albums (PWA) is a photo sharing web site from Google, often compared to Flickr and similar sites. It allows users with accounts at Google to store and share 1 GB of photos for free.

A screenshot of the program is shown below:

Google Earth

                  Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a company acquired by Google in 2004.The product, re-released as Google Earth in 2005, is currently available for use on personal computers running Windows 2000 and above, Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above, Linux kernel: 2.6 or later (released on June 12, 2006), and FreeBSD. Google Earth is also available as a browser plugin which was released on May 28, 2008. It was also made available for mobile viewers on the iPhone OS on October 28, 2008, as a free download from the App Store, and is available to Android users as a free app on the Android Market.

Hardware and software Requirements
            Google Earth is unlikely to operate on older hardware configurations. The most recent system requirements update document these minimum configurations:

• Pentium 3, 500MHz
• 256 Megabytes of RAM
• 400 MB free disk space
• Network speed: 128 kbit/s
• 64MB DirectX9 and 3D capable graphics card
• Resolution of 1024x768, 16-bit High Color - DirectX 9 (to run in Direct X mode)
• Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Linux or Mac OS X

              The most likely cause of failure is insufficient video RAM: the software is designed to warn the user if their graphics card is not able to support Earth (this often occurs due to insufficient Video RAM or buggy graphics card drivers). The next most likely mode of failure is Internet access speed. Fast broadband Internet (Cable, DSL, T1, etc.) is required.

Linux specifications

Minimum System Requirements

• Kernel: 2.4 or later
• CPU: Pentium III, 500 MHz
• System Memory (RAM): 128 MB
• Hard Disk: 400 MB free space
• Network Speed: 128 kbit/s
• Screen: 1024x768, 16 bit color
• Tested and works on the following distributions:

Ubuntu 5.10 or later SUSE 10.1 or later Fedora Core 4 or later Linspire 5.1 Gentoo 2006.0 Debian 3.1/4 Red Hat 9

Slackware 11.0 FreeBSD 6.1/7.0 with Linux Emulation Arch Linux 0.7.2 Duke Xandros 3.0.3 Business Edition Mandriva 2007 Sabayon Linux 3.26 PCLinuxOS 5.0 PC/OS 7.10

Versions and variations

 Release timeline

 

Illustrates timeline of KML and Google Earth history

• Keyhole Earthviewer 1.0 - June 11, 2001
• Keyhole Earthviewer 1.4 - January 1, 2002
• Keyhole Earthviewer 1.6 - February 2003
• Keyhole LT 1.7.1 - August 26, 2003
• Keyhole NV 1.7.2 - October 16, 2003
• Keyhole 2.2 - August 19, 2004
• Google Earth 3.0 - June 28, 2005
• Google Earth 4.0 - June 11, 2006
• Google Earth 4.1 - May 9, 2007
• Google Earth 4.2 - August 23, 2007
• Google Earth 4.3 - April 15, 2008
• Google Earth 5.0 - May 5, 2009
• Google Earth 5.1 - November 18, 2009
• Google Earth 5.2 - July 30, 2010
• Google Earth 6.0 - November 29, 2010

A screenshot of the program is shown below:

Fastcopy

              FastCopy is a free portable replacement for the Standard Windows Explorer Copy and Delete system. The software and all source codes have been opened to the public in the BSD license.

              The Software supports Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating systems but also works on Windows 7. FastCopy is very lightweight and provides faster transfer of files between hard drives and copying of files within the same drive. It also includes Windows shell integration.

              The usage of FastCopy is very simple, you simply select the source and destination directory. You also have the option of selecting what to do if the file already exists at the destination; you can either overwrite, create new or delete existing in case file already exists. When two or more Source is specified it delimits it by the semicolon. When the CTL key is pushed at the drag & drop to Source, it becomes added to a present content of Source. You can also add Window shell extension, by which you will be able to select FastCopy by right clicking the file.

              A screenshot of the program is shown below:

UltraISO

      UltraISO is an application for Microsoft Windows for creating, modifying and converting ISO files used for CD and DVD authoring. Since the first release of UltraISO on 20 April 2002, its author EZB Systems has maintained and kept the product shareware.
     
Features

• Duplicate CDs and DVDs to an ISO image.
• Create ISO images from files located on a CD/DVD-ROM or hard disk.
• Edit existing ISO files by adding, deleting, and creating files and folders.
• Create compressed zisofs (.ISZ) images
• Create bootable CD, DVD and floppy images.
• Converts: .BIN, .IMG, .CIF, .NRG, .BWI, .DAA, .DMG, .HFS and other formats to the standard ISO image.
• Supports all ISO 9660 levels and the Joliet extension.
• Optimization of ISO image file structures to save disc space.
• Capable of mounting only ISOs to a virtual drive.
• Create checksums for data verification of ISOs.
• Multiple language support.
• Built in digital audio player.
• Supports UDF disc format and allows creation of bootable UDF disks.

A screenshot of the program is shown below:

µTorrent

           µTorrent is a free Bittorrent client, popular for downloading large sized files, especially games and movies.This program is designed to use minimal computer resources while offering functionality comparable to larger BitTorrent clients such as Vuze, Bitcomet, etc. Although originally developed by Ludvig Strigeus, since December 7, 2006 the code is owned and maintained by BitTorrent, Inc.

          It downloads the files with the help of corresponding torrent files(*.torrent), which can be found on some sites such as Piratebay, Kickasstorrents, etc.

          Recent versions of µTorrent have included the ability to install themselves on first run.

         

HISTORY For Windows Version Size Release date 1.0.0 77 kB 1.1.7.2 98 kB 2005-10-22 1.2.2 107 kB 2005-11-25 1.3.0 115 kB 2005-12-10 1.4.2 142 kB 2006-01-11 1.5.0 155 kB 2006-03-08 1.6.1 173 kB 2007-02-15 1.7.7 214 kB 2008-01-25 1.8.5 282 kB 2009-10-29 2.0.4 321 kB 2010-08-25 2.2.0 385 kB 2010-11-10 For Mac Version Size Release date 1.0.1 1.62 MB 2010-10-14            A screenshot of file being downloaded using  µTorrent is shown below: