Diskeeper Professional 2008 - Powerful Defragmentation Software

Over time your HDD becomes fragmented. As you delete and create files, you create new regions of free space. Your free space is not in one big chunk at the end, but instead just a number of small holes all over your disk. And sometimes it is impossible to allocate new files contiguously, and your operating system has to break them into fragments, putting a small piece here and a small piece there.
File system fragmentation on your HDD can bring unforeseen problems, such as complete slowdown of system performance, slow startup and shutdown, PC crashes and sometimes even to drive failures.
Fortunately for all of us there are a number of programs that are designed to eliminate fragmentation. One of the best programs of this kind is Diskeeper 2008.
Diskeeper 2008 has one of the most powerful defragmentation engines ever developed. Even if your system only has a 1% of free space it can be defragged by this great program.
Diskeeper runs in the background and in real time and automatically defrags your disk when your machine is idle. Thus it can handle fragmentation as it occurs, eliminating the need for manual defragmentation.



Diskeeper 2008 also allows you manually defrag your system. Boot-Time Defragmentation option allows you to defrag your hard drive at boot time, moving files that couldn’t be moved while Windows was in use.
The program can configure the MFTs (Master File Tables - the place where information about every file and directory on an NTFS hard drive is stored) and paging files (a hidden file on your HDD that Windows uses as if it were RAM), preventing them from fragmentation and thus increasing overall system performance.
Diskeeper 2008 includes many others options and features for advanced users.
If you abuse your harddrive with lots of new/updated/deleted files, I would definitely recommend that you try Diskeeper.
You can download the latest version of Diskeeper here.

Opera — The Fastest Browser In The World

Opera browser is a very good piece of work. Billing itself as “The fastest browser on Earth!”, it is a free browser with great number of powerful and useful features.
Opera has clean interface that is very easy to use and understand. It has everything you need to browse the internet and even more.
Opera allows you to open several Web pages in different tabs within a single window. This is called tabbed browsing. You can easily drag tabs, duplicate them and even restore closed tabs. In Opera, you can resize pages and tile them next to each other on the same workspace to compare or work with several pages. The browser has very useful preview tab feature. Just place the mouse arrow over the tab and you will see a thumbnail preview.
The behavior of tabs can be easily configured to satisfy your needs.



Standard toolbar includes six basic buttons used to navigate within a document, address field, the search field for quick searching on the Web and the «View» button to toggle the view bar.
The search bar offers you several search engines to choose from. You also can add your favorite search engines to the search bar.



The view bar allows you to find a specified word in the active Web page, and provides you quick access to voice management (if available) and features that affect the display of the page, such as shortcuts to turn off stylesheets and images, zoom and so on.
Zooming in Opera applies to the entire page at once, instead of just the text. I found this very useful.



Another great feature of Opera is the sidebar which is placed on the left of the screen space. You can toggle it by pressing F4 key or clicking on the left side of the Opera window.
This sidebar gives you quick access to different panels such as bookmarks, widgets, history, notes, transfers, links and some others. These panels make the work with Opera even easier. You can configure sidebar by adding and removing panels of your own.



Opera has highly customizable interface that allows you to personalize it by using beautiful skins, removing and adding panels and buttons.



Opera is designed to be the fastest, smallest, and most full-featured browser available. It is really very fast in loading pages. It is definitely faster than Internet Explorer and smaller than Firefox.
The advanced fraud protection of Opera and its anti-phishing detection keeps your browsing safe and secure.
The very interesting feature of Opera is mouse gestures that allow you to do frequently performed browse operations with small, quick mouse movements.



Speed Dial is the new and unique feature of Opera that assigns bookmarks and tabs any digit from one through nine. When you enter one of those numbers into the URL bar, the corresponding site loads when you hit enter.



Opera includes support for BitTorrent so you don't need to download and install a separate BitTorrent program to download large files. Just click on torrent link and start the download.
There are many others features in Opera such as widgets, notes, Wand utility, simple integration with your favorite e-mail and chat clients, RSS feed reader and sessions management. The Opera browser supports many languages and operating systems.
Overall, I think Opera is one of the best browsers for power users who keep many pages open at once and perform frequent downloads. I like it.
You can download the latest version of Opera here.

Zoom Player 5.01 - One of the Most Powerful Media Players for Windows

If you're looking for a flexible, powerful media player with numerous features, you should try Zoom Player. This is one of the most well-known multimedia players was designed to be simple at first glance while being strikingly flexible and powerful when used to its full potential. The interface of Zoom Player can be easy learned even by a child, but it may take a lifetime to reveal all its features.



Zoom Player’s modular design and flexibility allows you to personalize this player to match your needs. You can modify the interface of the player by number of different type of skins suitable for any user as well as change operation modes, codec compatibility, control options and many other features. The great customization capabilities make Zoom Player ideal for both users with no previous computer experience and to the highly qualified professional.



Zoom Player supports nearly all audio, video and image formats, including AVI, Matroska (MKV), Windows Media Format (ASF/WMV/WMA including DRM with WMV Professional version), QuickTime (MOV), Cellphone 3GPP (3GP), Flash (SWF), MPEG-1 (MPG/VCD), MPEG-2 (MPG/SVCD/VOB), MPEG-4 (DIVX/XVID/ISO), RealMedia (RA/RM/RMVB/RAM), OGG Movie (OGM), VP3-VP6, MPEG Layer 3 (MP3), Vorbis Audio (OGG), Dolby Digital (AC3), MusePack Audio (MPC), Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), FLAC Audio (FLAC), OptimFROG Audio, Monkey Audio (APE), Wave Audio (WAV), True Audio (TTU), CD-Audio and many others.
The program updated on a regular basis and supports all the latest playback technologies such as P2P Video Preview, VMR9, and Multi Monitor.
One of the special Zoom Player’s features is the zoom functions to improve TV-Output quality by eliminating overscan.
There are three versions of Zoom Player: Standard, Professional and WMV Professional. The Standard version is free for non-commercial use, while Zoom Player Professional and WMV Professional cost 27.95$ and 35.95$ respectively.
The only important feature missing in Standard version is DVD support, which is available in Zoom Player Professional. The WMV Professional version of Zoom Player, besides all features available in Zoom Player Professional, also has the ability to playback DRM Encoded Windows Media files.
A few days ago, the new version Zoom Player was announced. It is Zoom Player 5.01 final. This release patches a recently discovered vulnerability and some other errors.
You can download appropriate version of Zoom Player on this page.

Winamp 5.52 – Universal Media Player

Winamp is flexible and free multimedia player designed to play and manage your music. But Winamp is more than just a player. It is your window to the world of multimedia. From mp3s to streaming video Winamp is the one place you go to feed your audio and video habit.
Winamp supports a great number of audio and video formats. It can play any video or audio file for which there are built-in, or external decoders. Winamp also plays streamed audio and video content, interacts with online shops and online-services, synchronize audio files with portable digital players, and more.
Moreover, it has an extremely customizable media library, and allows you to rip and burn your favorite music CDs.
Winamp has highly flexible and customizable interface. There are thousands of skins and plug-ins that allow you to completely modify the appearance of the player interface and add new features. It is also worth mentioning a new Bento layout that gets Winamp away from the old modular design. The joined panes for the media library, browser, media player, playlist editor and more make Winamp at once more visually attractive.



The player also can easily tune into user created Internet TV and Radio stations, allowing you to choose from over 10000 SHOUTcast Radio stations and 250 Internet TV channels.
Winamp comes in several versions: Lite, Full, Bundle and Pro. The differences between them are in the additional features. The Pro version is the only non-free version that allows users to encode mp3 and burn CD at full-speed.
The new version 5.52 build 1800 of Winamp has been released recently.
New version has a completely redesigned interface, multiple device support, including iPods. It also has Winamp Remote feature to access and share user’s music and videos, and better integration with a web services for downloading music and obtaining data on songs.
You can download the latest version of Winamp from this page.

SPAMfighter – The Easy Way to Fight Spam

If you are tired of getting spam and looking for an Outlook, Outlook Express, or Windows Mail spam filter to block spam from entering your inbox, Spamfighter is the application you are looking for.
SPAMfighter is a pretty popular anti-spam and anti-phishing addon for Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, and Windows Mail.
SPAMfighter is very easy to use. Once the program has been installed, you can just forget about it and simply use your email application as before with the significant difference that on around 95% of your spam is gone.
After installation of SPAMfighter, Outlook or Outlook Express gets a toolbar with four new control buttons and a new mail folder for dumping your spam into, called SPAMfighter. Using this toolbar, you can manually block and unblock an email messages. It also gives you access to advanced options of this application.



Program defines unsolicited email by using the power of a very large community of people who instantly report if they receive a spam mail. When several people designate the same letters as a spam, this letters is automatically blocked for the rest of the community in seconds.
If by chance you receive a spam mail in your Inbox, you can report it to the SPAMfighter server and remove it for all other community members with a single click on Block button in the SPAMfighter toolbar.
In addition, SPAMfighter uses special algorithm that filters large amount of spam before it ever hits the community.
SPAMfighter can block incoming mails from specific addresses and domains. To do this, you simply need to create a blacklist. You also can create a Whitelist and add there all your contacts to ensure that they are not filtered.


One of the great features of SPAMfighter is Language Recognition. It allows you to receive or reject only the emails written in the language(s) that you specify.
SPAMfighter is available in many languages, including English, German, Spanish, Chinese, French, Italian, Russian, and many others.
For your first 30 days you get the full Pro version, which keeps your emails free of adverts and offers some advanced features. When the trial period ends, you can either buy SPAMfighter Pro, or be downgraded to the free SPAMfighter Standard.
You can download the latest version of SPAMfighter here.

Diskeeper Professional 2008 - Powerful Defragmentation Software

Over time your HDD becomes fragmented. As you delete and create files, you create new regions of free space. Your free space is not in one big chunk at the end, but instead just a number of small holes all over your disk. And sometimes it is impossible to allocate new files contiguously, and your operating system has to break them into fragments, putting a small piece here and a small piece there.
File system fragmentation on your HDD can bring unforeseen problems, such as complete slowdown of system performance, slow startup and shutdown, PC crashes and sometimes even to drive failures.
Fortunately for all of us there are a number of programs that are designed to eliminate fragmentation. One of the best programs of this kind is Diskeeper 2008.
Diskeeper 2008 has one of the most powerful defragmentation engines ever developed. Even if your system only has a 1% of free space it can be defragged by this great program.
Diskeeper runs in the background and in real time and automatically defrags your disk when your machine is idle. Thus it can handle fragmentation as it occurs, eliminating the need for manual defragmentation.



Diskeeper 2008 also allows you manually defrag your system. Boot-Time Defragmentation option allows you to defrag your hard drive at boot time, moving files that couldn’t be moved while Windows was in use.
The program can configure the MFTs (Master File Tables - the place where information about every file and directory on an NTFS hard drive is stored) and paging files (a hidden file on your HDD that Windows uses as if it were RAM), preventing them from fragmentation and thus increasing overall system performance.
Diskeeper 2008 includes many others options and features for advanced users.
If you abuse your harddrive with lots of new/updated/deleted files, I would definitely recommend that you try Diskeeper.
You can download the latest version of Diskeeper here.

Internet Download Manager 5.12 - The Fastest Download Manager

The new version 5.12 of Internet Download Manager has been released recently.
It is very good download manager and accelerator. You can schedule, resume and accelerate your downloads with this popular software program.
According to the developers, Internet Download Manager allows you to increase the download speed by up to 5 times.
But the most useful feature of this download manager is its ability to recover and resume broken or interrupted downloads that occur due to network problems, lost connections, or computer shutdowns.
Internet Download Manager has simple and well design interface that allows you easily manage all your downloads.




The program supports firewalls, proxy servers, ftp and http protocols, cookies, handle file redirects, directories with authorization, and a large number of directory listing formats.
Internet Download Manager can be integrated with all popular web browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Netscape.
There are many other features such as multilingual support, zip preview, HTTPS support, enhanced virus protection and so on.
In the new version of Internet Download Manager was added the ability to limit download speed. The latest version also includes several bug fixes.





I think that Internet Download Manager is a great tool to handle downloads. It is shareware. You may download 30-day trial version here.