Microsoft Security Essentials

Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free* download from Microsoft that is simple to install, easy to use, and always kept up to date so you can be assured your PC is protected by the latest technology. It’s easy to tell if your PC is secure — when you’re green, you’re good. It’s that simple.

Microsoft Security Essentials runs quietly and efficiently in the background so that you are free to use your Windows-based PC the way you want—without interruptions or long computer wait times.

Homepage: http://www.microsoft.com/Security_essentials

Vuze

Vuze is the most popular media player for high-res digital videos. Millions around the world use Vuze daily to Find, Download, and Play HD videos on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPod, Xbox 360, PS3, PSP and TiVo.

The secret sauce behind Vuze is peer-to-peer technology (often called P2P), and specifically, a protocol called bittorrent. So, what is P2P? What is bittorrent? How does it work and why should it matter to you?

Homepage: http://www.vuze.com

Everest Ultimate Edition 4.6

Industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. Exhaustive details of system information on 100 pages including CPU, FPU, disk and memory benchmarks, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities.

Homepage: www.pro.de/aktion/com/everest

doPDF

doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.

Homepage: http://www.dopdf.com

Image Composite Editor

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. The application takes a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location and creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all the source images at full resolution.

Homepage: research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/

CamStudio

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)

Here are just a few ways you can use this software:

-You can use it to create demonstration videos for any software program
-Or how about creating a set of videos answering your most frequently asked questions?
-You can create video tutorials for school or college class
-You can use it to record a recurring problem with your computer so you can show technical support people
-You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell
-You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favourite software program, before you forget them

Homepage: http://camstudio.org

VideoSpin

VideoSpin is amazingly easy and fun for all consumers, especially users who don’t want to spend much time creating movies. The application has already been successfully downloaded by many consumers attracted by the simplicity of being able to quickly create entertaining videos and post them on the Web or email them to friends and family. Produced by a trusted name in the consumer video editing industry, VideoSpin offers the complete package, not just a trial version, absolutely free with ads.

Homepage: www.videospin.com

BurnAware

BurnAware Free is a free CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc burning software. It is ideal for users with basic disc burning needs as backup, creating data, audio, MP3 music, DVD-Video discs and burning disc images. Free, easy to set up, it enables you to save your files to disc quickly and provides clean, flexible interface to help you complete your burning tasks much faster.

Homepage: www.burnaware.com