Google Earth 5
Interactive satellite maps

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 5 features:
Historical imagery from around the globe
Ocean floor and surface data from marine experts
Simplified touring with audio and voice recording.ondered 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.

Last Updated 06 September 2010
Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
Mac OS X (10.4.0 +)
Linux

Windows Live Essentials

Windows Live Essentials includes free programs from Microsoft for photos, instant messaging, e‑mail, blogging, family safety, and more. Get them all in one download and get more done with Windows.

With Essentials, you get Messenger, Photo Gallery, Mail, Writer, Family Safety, and Toolbar, plus Microsoft Office Outlook Connector, Office Live Add-in, and Microsoft Silverlight.

Photo Gallery
It's a snap to get your photos and videos from your camera to your PC. Fix and organize your photos and then share them with friends and family online. Make your great photos look even better, and create impressive panoramic photos too.

Movie Maker
Turn photos and videos into great-looking movies and slide shows that you can share with your friends and family—on YouTube or other websites, or on DVD.*
Movie Maker isn't available for Windows XP or earlier versions of Windows.
* DVD burning is available on Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise, and Windows 7 Ultimate.

Mail
Access your e‑mail, contacts, and calendar even when you're offline. And Windows Live Mail helps you manage multiple e‑mail accounts—Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and more—in one program.

Messenger
Messenger is the best way to stay in touch with close friends. Share photos while you chat. Talk face-to-face in real time with video chat. Even see social updates your friends have shared.

Last Updated 20 June 2010
Win XP/Vista/2008 server/7

Messenger Plus! Live

Messenger Plus! Live is an add-on for Windows Live Messenger that adds tons of features and extras to the software. Extend the possibilities of Messenger and make your experience a lot more entertaining!

Log Search
Messenger Plus! now lets you search straight from the Log Viewer, indexing all your conversations automatically.

An All-New Interface
Although the first thing you'll notice is the whole new look of the Messenger Plus! windows, more importantly each of them has had its layout revised, with hundreds of adjustments designed to make you find things more easily!

Messenger Skinning
Completely change the look of your Messenger windows with easy-to-install skins.

...and improvements everywhere!
You'll notice lots of small but important new features: recent contact events appear in conversation windows, Contact List Clean-Up now lets you view a list of the contacts that have you in their list, random sounds can now be added from the Sound Library window, enhanced Quick Icons functionality, and much more...!

Messenger Plus! Live is the one essential add-on for Windows Live Messenger, period. Installed more than 500 million times since 2001, when it started as a simple add-on for MSN Messenger 3, Messenger Plus! is guaranteed to improve your Messenger experience by leaps and bounds. You won't just get a couple of new options, what you'll get is a whole new dimension for the Windows Live Messenger software.

Last Updated 20 Febuary 2010
Win 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7

Parental Filter

Parental Filter is a 100% freeware porn blocker. It specializes in blocking porno websites nothing more, nothing less.

Sometimes children come over your house and they say can we go on the internet, and you think what if porno sites start popping up. This stops that from happening.

Parental Filter is automatic, you just turn it on and porn gets blocked. You may have children who are getting curious about the Internet and don't want them exposed to material that may adversely affect them in the future.

Parental Filter is here to help. Above picture depicts persons happily co-existing because they use Parental Filter.

Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003

Shrink Pic
Automatically resizes email images before sending

Today's high resolution digital cameras produce multi Megabyte photos. These are great for printing but cause a heavy burden when sending over the Internet.

Shrink Pic allows you to send dozens of photos as email attachments - quickly and with no effort at all!

All you need to do is install Shrink Pic. It automatically detects when you're sending large photo files and compresses them in the background.

There's no setup, no operating instructions, nothing, nada. Just send your photos normally and Shrink Pic takes care of shrinking them

How it works
Shrink Pic runs in the background. It has a taskbar icon which tells you it's waiting for photos to be sent.

Then, when it detects that you're sending a large photo, it automatically creates a temporary copy, resizes it and sends it instead. It gives you a notice message, so you'll know the photo you sent was resized. Of course, the original photo doesn't change, only the temporary copy.

You can control how Shrink Pic resizes your photos. Select between three automatic resize levels or enter your own custom sizes. Shrink Pic also recognizes rotated photos (portrait layout) and resizes them intelligently, so you don't need to worry about that too

Last Updated 24 August 2009
Win 2000/XP/Vista

AM-DeadLink

AM-DeadLink detects dead links and duplicates in browser bookmarks and text files. If a bookmark has become unavailable you can verify and delete it permanently. Additionally you can download FavIcons for all your Favorites and Bookmarks.

AM-DeadLink can check the following resources:
Internet Explorer Favorites
Firefox bookmarks
Opera bookmarks
URLs from tab delimited text files
URLs from comma separated text files

AM-DeadLink can download FavIcons for:
Internet Explorer Favorites
Firefox bookmarks
Opera bookmark

Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista

McAfee SiteAdvisor

McAfee SiteAdvisor is a security add-on for your Internet Explorer browser that helps you identify sites that are linked to spyware, adware, spam, viruses, browser-based attacks, phishing, or online fraud.

The SiteAdvisor service is based on a huge database with detailed test results for more than 100,000 pieces of software and covers more than 90% of the world`s Web traffic.

The program integrates with search engine results from popular search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN) and also adds an icon to the browser toolbar that indicates whether a site is safe to use, or should be used with caution.

If SiteAdvisor has negative information for a site, you can review a very detailed report that shows any spam received from that site, harmful downloads, and association with other sites.

An excellent browser add-on, that provides an in-depth site analysis that is based on actual test results, rather than assumptions.

Win 98/ME/2000/XP

Password Agent

Password Agent is a password manager program that allows you to store all your passwords, secret notes and data snippets in a single, easy to navigate, and secure database.

Too many passwords to remember? Pieces of paper that you once used to write down your important account information are lost?

Want to find required password quickly? Password Agent keeps track all of your different passwords - no problems, no worries. And, it keeps strangers away from accessing your private information.

Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

RoboForm 

RoboForm is a free password manager and one-click web form filler with some serious Artificial Intelligence.

What it does:
AutoSave passwords in browser.
AutoFill passwords to login form.
Click Login button for you.
Fill personal info into online forms.
Save offline passwords & notes.
Generate Secure Random Passwords.
Encrypt passwords and personal data using 3-DES.
All personal info is stored on your computer only.
Put passwords on USB disk for extra security.
Sync your passwords and safenotes to a Palm and Pocket PC.
Backup & Restore, Print your passwords.

Win XP/2003/Vista/7

JAP
Anonymization software

JAP enables anonymous web surfing with any browser through the use of integrated proxy services that hide your real IP address. The service uses a proxy mix cascade that effectively hides the identity of any one single user among the connections of all the other users - making it impossible, even for the proxy provider, to determine which IP belongs to which user.

After installing JAP, you need to configure your browser to use the local proxy server (instructions provided) for web browsing. The provided control panel allows you to turn anonymity on or off, and also dispays the current level of security.

JAP comes pre-configured with several free service providers and also supports pay services.
The free services are run by universities and other public infrastructures and are free of charge for the user.

Win 98/ME/2000/XP

ieSpell
A Spell Checker for Internet Explorer

ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries).

Even if your web application already includes spell checking functionality, you might still want to install this utility because it is definitely much faster than a server-side solution.

Plus you get to store and use your personal word list across all your applications, instead of maintaining separate ones on each application.

Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

Flash Saving Plugin

Flash Saving Plugin lets you easily save flash movies right from Internet Explorer. Finally! There's no need to rummage about in the browser cache anymore!If your browser is Internet Explorer, then a button is added to the Internet Explorer toolbar.

The button displays the names of all flash movies that are loaded on the current web page. Click a name and the corresponding flash movie is saved to the folder specified.

You can view the flash movies on a separate web page (gallery mode). In the gallery mode the URL, the file size and the last modification date are shown for every flash movie. Furthermore, the file name modification is possible in the gallery mode.

Win 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003

Bookmark Wizard

Bookmark Wizard is a little program with a simple wizard-like interface that generates an HTML page with all/selected links from your Internet Favorites folder.

The links in the resulting page are grouped and sorted in ascending order like they are in your Favorites folder. You can specify colors for links and backgrounds, title, caption, etc., for your page. Also, you can exclude certain folders from being listed.

Advanced users are able to edit the entire page template to customize it further. The resulting web page can be used as a links page on your homepage; you can send it to a friend or use it just as a startup page for your web browser etc.

Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

Surfpack
The ultimate news and favorites aggregator

Meet Surfpack, the lifesaver for people who know what they want on the Internet and regularly visit the same web sites!

Surfpack is a desktop application that gathers up information from your favorite web resources into a dynamic HTML pages, which then presents it in whatever form or shape you might like - favorite URL links, newsfeeds and even entire web pages! Surfpack's DHTML interface works under Internet Explorer 5.0+, Mozilla Firefox 1.0+, and Opera 7.5+.

Surfpack can feature search tools, horoscopes, current weather conditions, LiveJournal diaries, humor, web modules and other dynamically updated content. Your Surfpack resides locally on your computer and so it loads instantly even if you don't have an Internet connection established. Unlike traditional online Portals, no registration is required to open or modify your Surfpack. It belongs entirely to you!

Surfpack supports many popular syndication formats including RSS, Atom, XML/XSL, JavaScript and HTML. Even if you are unfamiliar with these terms, you can utilize their power without having to learn anything new. Once you have tried Surfpack you will wonder how you managed without it!

Win 98/Me/2000/XP