How to Jailbreak your iDevice

What is Jailbreak?

Jailbreak is basically a tool which makes your ipod touch, iphone and ipad so much cooler but it is sometimes not good but mostly, it is amazing... Jailbreaking is absolutely FREE but sometimes it cost to buy tools off cydia. Below will be a guide of how to jailbreak your ipod touch and many other apple products the easy way, but this only applies to ios 4.3.5, if you wanna jailbreak other then that ios, subscibe    to Attack of the Dawn now and enter your email address and your ios version to the comment below and I will send you the guide for Free on your ios version


If you have jailbroken your device but your device get stuck on the apple logo when trying to reboot, scroll down to the end of this post and you will find the solution

Guide to jailbreaking

Files to download before doing the jailbreaking process:

Download iOS 4.3.5 for iPhone 4, 3GS, iPod touch and iPad
Download iOS 4.3.4 for iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad, iPod touch
Download Redsn0w 0.9.8b4 for Windows
Download Redsn0w 0.9.8b4 for Mac
Download iTunes 10.4 for Windows & Mac

Step 1: Download iOS 4.3.5 and iOS 4.3.4 (required by this version of Redsn0w) firmware file for your device from the links given at the end.

Step 2: Download Redsn0w 0.9.8b4 for Windows or Mac. Also make sure you are running the latest version of iTunes, which is version 10.4.

Step 3: Now start Redsn0w, browse for the iOS 4.3.4 firmware file (NOT the 4.3.5) that you downloaded in Step 1 and point it towards Redsn0w. Refer to the screenshots below:

Step 4: Once Redsn0w is done recognizing the firmware file, click Next and there you’ll be taken to a new window. Simply check the “Install Cydia” box as shown below and leave other options as it is for now. Once done, click Next.

Step 5: On this screen, Redsn0w will instruct you to power down your device and plug it in to your computer. Follow the onscreen instructions and then click Next to continue.

Step 6: On this screen you will have to put your device in DFU mode with a combination of the Power button and the Home button for a certain amount of time, simply follow the onscreen instructions on how to do so. The combination is usually like this:

• Hold down Power button for 5 seconds.
• Now without releasing the Power button, hold down the Home button simultaneously with the Power button for 10 seconds.
• Let go of the Power button but keep on holding the Home button for another 15 seconds.

If you performed the above mentioned steps correctly, then your device should be in DFU mode.

Step 7: Redsn0w will now jailbreak your device, don’t do anything weird at this point, just let Redsn0w finish. We would recommend that you don’t do anything with your PC or Mac at all during the process. Sitting idle and waiting for the process to end on its own is much advised.

Since this is a tethered jailbreak, therefore whenever your iOS device loses power, it will go into the dreaded Apple logo boot screen loop. To get out of that, simply start from Step 3 again and in Step 4, uncheck “Install Cydia” and instead check “Just boot tethered right now” option and hit “Next” with your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch connected to your PC or Mac. And yes, you will have to do this every time when your device reboots or loses power.

That’s it! You should now have a jailbroken iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 4.3.5.

Please Click Here to watch the video we made about top tweaks to install in your jailbroken device

When you Turn off your iDevice, you get stuck on the apple logo when trying to turn on

Step 1: Link your iDevice to your computer


Step 2: Open the application Redsn0w (the one you used to jailbreak just now)


Step 3: Click on Browse and select your ipsw file you just downloaded to jailbreak, it will say identified if its correct.


Step 4: CLick next then if you direct you to a page which there are many options, tick "Just boot tethered right now" and nothing else, click next then make sure your iDevice is off, follow the instructions to get your iDevice into a DFU mode and all the things will run on your device the your done!

FreeHideFolder，收藏你的機密檔案

免費資源網路社群的朋友大家安安，還記得我嗎？我是 Boring，最近維基解密鬧得沸沸揚揚，讓 Boring 也不得不對自己的機密檔案嚴加管理，免得被別人發現我電腦裡頭最私密的資料，到時候變成台灣陳冠C就來不及啦！因此今天要介紹這款好用的免費軟體－FreeHideFolder！

軟體名稱： FreeHideFolder
軟體語系： 英文
軟體性質： 加密工具
作業系統： XP、VISTA、7
官方網站： http://www.cleanersoft.com/hidefolder/free_hide_folder.htm
免費下載： http://www.cleanersoft.com/hidefolder/free_hide_folder.htm

先來看看他的介紹頁面，其實很簡單，它告訴大家它是 Freeware 可以安心的下載並且使用它，它的好處是可以隱藏、加密甚至是備份你的私密檔案，而且它只有 875 KB，佔用空間相當小，可以說是一款功能性強又不耗資源的小軟體。

安裝好之後，點執行檔開啟程式，一開始它會要求你輸入一組 Password ，以後若沒有這組密碼，任何人將無法開啟你的私密檔案，所以你一定要記牢你輸入的密碼哦，因為如果連你都忘記了，大概就要上演終極密碼戰第二集了，而且結局應該是悲劇收場……

輸入好密碼之後，你就可以開始選取你想隱藏或者加密的檔案囉，點 Add 可以直接選你要加密或隱藏的檔案甚至是整個磁碟；點 Hide 就是隱藏； Unhide 就是取消隱藏； Password 就是用你設定的密碼加密；還有 Back up 可以備份你重要的檔案或資料夾哦，是不是麻雀雖小、五臟俱全呢？

關於作者： Boring

大家好，我是Boring，塵世間一位迷途的小宅男，網誌記載著各式各樣有趣的故事和有用資訊，無聊的時候可以看看Boring的Blog，保證讓您拍案叫絕，不虛此行^_^ 部落格網址：http://www.wretch.cc/blog/ecoolab

Boring 寫的其他文章 | Boring 的個人網站

ESET 免費線上病毒掃描器（中文版）

ESET 線上掃描器用於偵測並清除系統內的病毒或惡意程式，無須安裝任何防毒軟體，透過瀏覽器就可以輕鬆使用。ESET 線上掃描器使用與知名防毒軟體 NOD32 Antivirus 相同的 ThrestSense 技術，採用最新的病毒碼來掃描檔案，可以確保有最高的偵查率。目前 ESET 線上掃描器支援大部分的瀏覽器，提供反隱藏技術、隔離等功能，支援 64 位元作業系統。

網站名稱：ESET Online Scanner 線上掃描器 網站鏈結：http://www.eset.com.tw/threat-center/online_scanner

使用 IE 瀏覽器開啟 ESET Online Scanner 網站，安裝 ActiveX 套件即可掃描。如果是使用 Google 瀏覽器的話，會提示必須下載 esetsmartinstaller_cht.exe 程式，下載後執行就可以進行系統掃描。完成後可以快速將程式移除，不會佔用到系統資源。

勾選「是，我接受使用條款」，按下右方的「啟動」就可以使用。

在電腦掃描設定項目上，欲社會「移除搜尋到的威脅」、「掃描可能影響系統效能的程式」、「啟用反隱藏技術」，如果有需要掃描壓縮檔、掃描有潛在威脅的程式或是設定代理伺服器的話可以在進階設定裡找到。

第一次使用 ESET Online Scanner 會先下載病毒資料庫。

下載完病毒資料庫後 ESET Online Scanner 就會開始運作，依照電腦的效能和資料數量不同，所需要的時間也不一樣。建議可以放著讓它掃描即可。

完成後會提示掃描過多少檔案、已受感染的檔案數量、已清除的檔案數量和時間，如果不想要把 ESET Online Scanner 留在電腦裡，記得勾選「關閉時解除安裝應用程式」，按下完成之後就會自動將此程式移除。

FLV To MP3 Converter 轉檔軟體，限時免費下載

FLV To MP3 Converter 是一套用來將 FLV 轉為其他格式的轉檔軟體，號稱轉檔速度比同類軟體快 150% ，使用很簡單，只要三個動作就可以轉檔。除了支援 MP3 以外，也能轉檔成 MP4, MPG, FLV, WMV, MOV，或是 MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG 和 FLAC 等音訊格式，雖然 FLV To MP3 Converter 不是免費軟體，但在十月底以前可以免費下載及獲取註冊碼。

FLVMP3.net 正在進行 FLV To MP3 Converter 軟體贈送活動，而這項活動將在 2011.10.25 結束，使用者可以免費下載此軟體（價值 $29.95 美元）。

優惠網頁：http://go.freegroup.org/gdotl
軟體下載：官方網站下載

進入 FLV To MP3 Converter 官方網站，下方的 Serial Key 是軟體註冊序號，可以先複製起來稍後註冊。點擊 DOWNLOAD 下載安裝程式。

安裝後執行並點擊左下角的 Register FLV To MP3 Converter Now! ，跳出輸入註冊碼的對話視窗，將獲得的註冊碼貼上，按下 OK 重新啟動軟體。

要轉檔只需要把 FLV 檔案拖曳到軟體裡，或點擊 Add Files, Add Folder 來加入檔案，從右邊選擇輸出格式、比特率和聲道等等，按下 Start Convertering Now 即可轉檔。

ShortcutsMan 自動搜尋並刪除已失效的捷徑（中文版免安裝）

捷徑其實是一個很方便的設計，能讓使用者在執行某個程式或前往某個資料夾時無須經過層層切換，大部分的軟體在安裝後也會在開始功能表或桌面上建立捷徑，讓用戶可以更方便執行使用。不過電腦在長時間的使用後可能會有一些失效的捷徑，雖佔用空間不多，卻可能造成不便，

透過 ShortcutsMan 可以自動搜尋 Windows 裡失效的捷徑鏈結，再快速將失效捷徑刪除，這支程式只有約 50kb 左右，具備繁體中文語系，且免安裝。

軟體資訊

軟體名稱：ShortcutsMan
軟體性質：系統工具
軟體語系：英文、繁體中文
作業系統：Windows XP / Vista / 7 （支援 32、64 位元）
官方網站：http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shman.html
官方載點：免安裝檔下載 | 繁體中文語系下載

將 ShortcutsMan 免安裝檔下載到電腦後解壓縮，執行 shman.exe 即可使用；如果要使用繁體中文的操作介面，只要將繁體中文語系檔解壓縮到 ShortcutsMan 資料夾即可。

啟動後 ShortcutsMan 就會自動搜尋系統裡的捷徑連結了，如果出現紅色的捷徑即為「無效快捷方式」，可以點擊最前方的勾選框，再按上面工具列的刪除來將失效的捷徑移除。

免費獲得 Avira Internet Security 2012 小紅傘授權序號

Avira Internet Security 2012 雖然還沒正式推出，但小紅傘官方已經開始在贈送 Avira Internet Security 2012 的軟體序號了，如果你也是小紅傘的使用者，趕緊把握機會參加這個優惠活動。此優惠活動沒有什麼參加限制，只要有 Facebook 帳號就能參加，而授權序號的使用期間取決於參加的人數，每 10,000 人參加會延長序號一個月，如果在活動期間有超過 120,000 人參加，那麼小紅傘就會免費送一年份的授權金鑰。

如何參加活動？

活動網址：http://www.facebook.com/avira?sk=app_28134323652

進入 Avira 小紅傘的 Facebook 活動頁面，登入 Facebook 帳戶，然後點擊 Enter Sweepstakes 參加活動。

跳出授權請求後點擊「同意」。接著會看到如下的表單，填入姓名、Email、居住地區和生日，勾選同意活動的條款，按下 Submit 送出即可。最下方有個 Share on my wall 的選項會自動將此活動發佈到你的塗鴉牆，如不想這麼做，可以把選項取消勾選。

完成參加後會在信箱收到一封來自 notifications@wildfireapp.com 的郵件，此活動會在 2011 年 10 月 17 日截止，一旦參加的人越多，贈送授權序號時效越長，在截止後每個人都可以獲得註冊碼。

iTube Studio for Mac 線上影片下載、轉檔軟體，限時免費

iSkysoft iTube Studio for Mac 是一套線上影片下載與轉檔工具，讓 Mac OS X 使用者可以輕鬆在 Safari 瀏覽器內下載 YouTube、Facebook、TNT、BREAK 等等線上影片網站的內容，也能將下載的影片轉檔為 iPhone（iPhone 4）、iPod、iPad、PSP 或其他裝置適用的影片格式， 軟體本身內建 FLV 播放器，將影片下載後就可以直接在軟體內播放。


iTube Studio for Mac 的開發商 Wondershare 正在進行軟體優惠活動，只要在活動期間（台北時間 9/14 18:00 至 9/19 18:00）訪問活動頁面，即可免費獲得 iSkysoft iTube Studio for Mac 一套（價值 $29 美元），且沒有使用期間限制，趕緊把握這次難得的機會。

如何免費獲得 iTube Studio for Mac？

在活動期間訪問以下的活動頁面鏈結。

活動網址：http://www.iskysoft.com/itube-studio-mac/giveaway.html

填入 Email 和您對於此產品的建議，按下 Get KeyCode 即可獲取正式版序號一組。收到郵件後，裡頭就有軟體下載鏈結（或點這裡直接下載）。

使用教學

將 iSkysoft iTube Studio for Mac 下載到電腦後執行，再點擊 iTube Studio 安裝程式就能進行安裝，安裝的過程與一般軟體大同小異，唯獨安裝完後必須重新啟動 Safari 。

第一次啟動 iTube Studio 時會出現使用嚮導，如果想快速知道此軟體的功能和使用方式，可以直接點擊播放來查看教學。

將優惠活動獲得的軟體序號複製、貼上後點擊 Register 註冊，即可讓軟體變成正式版。

要如何從網站下載影片呢？以下使用 YouTube 作為範例。以 Safari 瀏覽器開啟網頁，將滑鼠移動到任何 YouTube 或支援的影片上，點擊左上角出現的「Download」按鈕。

按下載後，影片會自動被放入 iSkysoft iTube Studio 的下載畫面裡，使用者可以在下載清單裡查看每個影片的下載進度、時間、影片縮圖和標題。

如何瀏覽下載後的影片或是進行影片轉檔呢？只需要點擊左側的「Library」，然後勾選要進行轉檔的影片，再點右下角的「Convert」轉檔按鈕，從 Format 選擇要轉換的格式並設定匯出路徑即可。

iSkysoft iTube Studio 支援的格式非常多，除了蘋果的裝置以外，也支援遊戲機、可攜式影片播放器、HD 影片等等。

選擇要轉換的格式之後 iTube Studio 就會自動轉檔囉！是不是非常方便好用呢？

Enjoy~ 如果覺得好用，也歡迎轉寄給你的好友喔！

免費獲取 UpdateStar Premium Edition 軟體更新工具（180 天序號）

大 部分的軟體都有內建自動更新功能，可以定時檢查是否有新版本釋出，有些甚至可以直接在軟體內更新而無需另外下載安裝程式，我認為將軟體隨時保持在最新版本 也是使用者要養成的習慣（除非有特殊需要）。如果你沒有多餘的時間來逐一檢查軟體有無新版，那麼 UpdateStar 就顯得重要了。


兩年前我們曾經介紹過「UpdateStar – 軟體搜尋引擎，讓你的程式保持在最新版本！」，與本文要介紹的軟體皆為同公司產品。UpdateStar 會自動監控系統內的應用程式是否新版釋出，讓所有軟體保持在最穩定安全的狀態。而在 UpdateStar Premium Edition 進階版中有更多強大的功能，包括直接為使用者尋找安全、已驗證的更新下載鏈結，顯示軟體的安全分析與安全級別、匯入匯出完整軟體清單等等。
UpdateStar Premium Edition 價值 $34.95 美元，透過優惠活動可以免費獲取 180 天完整版序號，此軟體亦提供多國語言介面（包括中文），想使用的朋友請儘快到活動網頁註冊。

如何獲取 UpdateStar Premium Edition 6？

進入以下活動網頁鏈結，輸入公司名稱（選填）以及電子郵件地址，按下提交送出。

活動網頁：http://www.updatestar.com/license/register/pca2517

填 完後至 E-mail 信箱收信，第一封為確認郵件，點擊 E-mail 內的確認鏈結後會立即收到第二封郵件，內有軟體下載鏈結以及本次活動軟體序號（見下圖），進入下載鏈結後點擊 UpdateStar Premium Edition 6 再點擊 Free Scan and Download 按鈕即可下載。

軟體下載：http://client.updatestar.com/en/updatestar/features/ （或直接下載）

安裝後啟動 UpdateStar ，選擇上方的「高級版本」→「輸入許可」，勾選「輸入新的許可信息」，再將你的 E-mail 以及剛才收到的序號輸入即可完成註冊。

註冊後軟體就會從 Freeware Edition（免費版）變成 Premium Edition（進階版），使用者也可以享受付費用戶的完整功能。

UpdateStar 操作介面相當簡單，且也有內建中文語系，自行摸索一下應該就知道要怎麼使用它囉！如果在活動或使用上有任何問題，也可以直接於本頁面下方留言討論。

AVG Mobilation Pro for Android 手機防毒軟體限時免費下載

根據知名的安全防護公司所提出的統計數據，Android 的惡意攻擊已經到達 76% ，透過 AVG 開發的 Android 行動裝置免費防毒軟體 AVG Mobilation，能保護你遠離病毒、惡意程式或漏洞的侵擾。AVG Mobilation 是一款針對 Android 所開發的手機專用防毒軟體，多國語言介面、一鍵式操作介面且會提供如何修復問題的建議。


AVG Mobilation 分為免費版以及專業版（Pro），後者比前者擁有更多更完整的功能，售價為 $9.99 美元，如果你不想額外花錢購買應用程式，現在可以從德國雜誌 Chip.de 提供的活動頁面免費下載完整版的 AVG Mobilation Pro。
AVG Mobilation Pro 主要功能：

• 即時掃描應用程式、設定、檔案或多媒體
• 透過地圖找尋你遺失或被偷竊的手機
• 備份並還原你的應用程式與資料
• 確保 Email、聯絡人、書籤和簡訊安全
• 透過任務管理員關閉不必要的程式
• 檢查多媒體檔案漏洞
• 可以設定執行週期
• 透過 SMS 或 AVG 手機控制台來遠端鎖定、清除手機內的重要資料
• 設定鎖定螢幕訊息，幫助定位系統找到你

網站名稱：AVG Mobilation Pro Giveaway 網站鏈結：下載鏈結 （官方網站）
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如何免費獲取 AVG Mobilation Pro？

AVG Mobilation Pro 原價格為 $9.99 美元，Chip.de 免費贈送 AVG Mobilation Pro v2.8.1。以 Android 裝置進入 AVG Mobilation Pro 優惠活動網頁，或直接以上方 QR-Code 進入，點擊 Zum Download 下載本軟體（如果沒看到此按鈕，表示活動已經結束）。

點擊 Download-Server CHIP Online 下載位置。

等待倒數計時結束後會再出現一次 Zum Download 按鈕，點擊即可下載 APK 檔並安裝。

將 AVG Mobilation Pro 安裝至 Android 裝置裡就可以使用囉，點擊螢幕立即保護裝置，或是點擊選單來做設定。

AVG Mobilation 本身有提供多國語系介面，但中文部分只有簡體中文，調整語系可以在設定畫面的最下方 Languages 選擇。除此之外，設定畫面裡還可以立即更新、設定更新頻率、設定掃描頻率、開啟或關閉即時掃描、掃描文字訊息以及開啟網頁安全瀏覽功能。

除了掃描以外，工具內還有許多功能可以使用，包括漏洞掃瞄器、任務管理器、軟體加密、資料備份、應用程式備份、資料清除以及垃圾簡訊和惡意網站阻擋。

目前不確定此活動會進行到什麼時候，如果你也是 Android 使用者，正需要一套防毒軟體的話，可以試試看 AVG Mobilation 提供的防毒功能喔！

Best 101 Free Computer Software For Your Daily Use

Good things in life do not necessarily cost you a bomb. Below I have compiled a list of the top 100 101 free computer software you can make use of.

Enjoy!

Office Suite

1. OpenOffice.org – OpenOffice.org is a viable alternative to Microsoft Office – even for professional use. It can do just about anything Office can.
2. AbiWord – A lightweight version of Microsoft Office. Simple, straightforward interface; easy to use.
3. Jarte – A word processor based on the Microsoft WordPad. It can be run directly from a USB flash drive.
4. Notepad++ – A free source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.
5. EditPad Lite – A general-purpose text editor, designed to be small and compact, yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor.
Security
6. avast! 4 Home Edition – A complete antivirus solution that is able to find computer viruses, create and check the integrity of programs installed, test executed programs and opened documents, to test and check email and other functions.
7. AVG Anti-Virus – A free security solution that is easy to use, has low system resources, automatic update functionality and ability to protect as files are opened and programs are run.
8. Comodo Firewall – A free firewall that constantly monitors and defends your PC from internet attacks. It is a fully functional product that comes with continual updates that are free forever!
9. McAfee SiteAdvisor – A plugin for Firefox and IE browser that shows safety rating as you browse the Web.
10. SpyCatcher Express – A free anti-spyware program that allows novice PC users to remove aggressive spyware, stops next-generation, mutating spyware, blocks reinstallation of aggressive spyware and removes spyware safely and automatically.
11. StartupMonitor – A small monitoring program that keeps a constant eye on your system’s startup entries. When ever a change is made, you will be notified and given a choice to either allow the change or not to change.
12. SuperStorm Freeware – This software allows you to hide your confidential files and folders in a wide variety of media files such as pictures, audio, video, executable programs among many other file types.
13. Windows Defender – A free program that helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software.
14. HijackThis – A malware remove tool that makes a detailed log of what’s going on in your Registry and gives you the opportunity to remove things that might be suspect.
15. Zone Alarm – This software lets you block uninitiated and unwanted traffic, even while your PC is unattended or while you’re not using your connection.
Desktop management
16. Google desktop – A desktop search application that gives you easy access to information on your computer and from the web.
17. Yahoo Desktop – Yahoo Desktop enables you to search and instantly find information, preview it in its native format, and take action on it immediately.
18. TweakUI – This software reduces the Windows annoyance without having to meddle with the registry. It gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more.
19. Pretty run – A small program that can search your start menu, desktop or any other folder for shortcuts.
20. RoboForm – RoboForm memorizes and securely stores each user name and password the first time you log into a site, then automatically supplies them when you return.
21. AutoHotkey - This open-source utility can automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write macros by hand or use the macro recorder. You can also create hotkeys for keyboard, mouse, joystick, and handheld remote controls.
22. Keepass safe – A password manager which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk.
23. Clipomatic – A clipboard cache program that remembers what was copied to the clipboard and allows you to retrieve it, even after you’ve copied something else to the clipboard.
Browser
24. Firefox – Firefox includes tons of useful features such as tabbed browsing, built-in and customizable search bars, a built-in RSS reader and a huge library of extensions developed by thousand of developers.
25. Opera – Opera introduces Speed Dial which vastly improves navigation to your favorite sites. In addition, there’s Fraud protection, an anti-phishing detection keeps browsing safe and secure.
26. Crazy browser – A browser that allows users to collect tabs into groups and then load an entire group at once. This feature is very useful for research, as you can summon a set of related sites as needed, without manually opening each one.
Fun and Games
27. Banshee Screamer Alarm – A snoozeable alarm clock designed to wake you up. Play MP3s, execute programs, or shut down your computer at the time you set.
28. BZFlag – An online multiplayer cross-platform open source 3D tank battle game. It runs on Irix, Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac OS X, and many other platforms. It’s one of the most popular games ever on Silicon Graphics machines.
29. ConWare IconArt – An easy-to-use icon & cursor editor that allows your to design your own, edit previous icons, create cursors, capture icons from programs and DLL files or import an image for your icon.
30. Google Earth – Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips.
31. Tux Racer – Getting bored and sick of the Windows game? Tux Racer lets you take on the role of Tux the Linux Penguin as he races down steep, snow-covered mountains. Enter cups and compete to win the title!
32. ZSNES – A Nintendo emulator on your desktop. ZSNES is built to run on Windows, DOS, Linux and FreeBSD Unix and it is by far the best SNES emulator available.
33. Cartes du Ciel – A sky map that allows you to find out what constellations and planets are visible tonight.
Graphics Editing
34. GIMP – A complete image editing software with capabilities not found in any other free software product. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert-quality photo-retouching program, a mass production image renderer, or an image-format converter.
35. Paint.net – A free image and photo editing software that features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
36. Google sketchup – A powerful yet easy-to-learn 3D software tool that combines a simple, yet robust tool-set with an intelligent drawing system that streamlines and simplifies 3D design.
37. IrfanView – A fast and compact image viewer/converter that is simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.
Video and Audio
38. Audacity – A complete recording and sound editing software that is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
39. Media Monkey – A music manager and jukebox for serious music collectors and iPod users. It offers an intelligent tag editor which looks up missing Album Art and track information via Freedb and the Web.
40. CDex – An application that records audio tracks from CDs and saves them to a disk as regular WAV files or as encoded sound files.
41. iTunes – One of the highest downloaded digital-jukebox software. Comes with the iTunes Music Store that offers music at 99-cents-per-song.
42. Winamp – A multimedia player that supports numerous audio and video formats. It also plays streamed video and audio content, both live and recorded, authored worldwide.
43. VLC – A highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
44. QuickTime Alternative – This application let you play QuickTime or Real videos without Apple or Real’s bloated, in-your-face proprietary players.
PDF creator
45. PrimoPDF – A free tool for high-quality PDF creation, comprising a user-friendly interface that enables printing to PDF from virtually any Windows application.
46. PDF creator – A simple PDF creation tool for those who just want to skip the technical steps and produce a PDF file. If you know how to print, then you know how to use this software.
47. doPDF – Using doPDF, you can create searchable PDF files from virtually any application. You can search for text within the created PDF file, and search engines will also index the text from the PDF.
Virtual Server
48. VMware Server – VMware Server installs on any existing server hardware and partitions a physical server into multiple virtual machines by abstracting processor, memory, storage and networking resources, giving you greater hardware utilization and flexibility.
49. LogMeIn Hamachi – A VPN that allows you to access your home PC from work (or vice versa) as though you’re sitting right in front of it.
50. OpenVPN – OpenVPN is a tried and true VPN solution. It is totally secure and infinitely configurable. You can install and run this software without relying on a third party.
Instant Messaging
51. Windows Live messenger – The next generation MSN Messenger. It comes with everything that were already available in Messenger, and a new i’m Initiative that makes helping your favorite charity as easy as sending an instant message.
52. Pidgin – A multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. Pidgin can work with: AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo!, MySpaceIM and many more.
53. Trillian – A fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC.
54. Skype – A software that enables you to make free calls anywhere in the world.
Download manager
55. Download Accelerator Plus – A download manager that can enhance your download experience. Features include a search tab, security check for every site and application you download, more speed per connection, resume broken download and preview file when you download.
56. Internet download manager – A tool for increasing download speeds by up to 5 times, and for resuming, scheduling, and organizing downloads. The program will resume unfinished downloads due to network problems, or unexpected power outages.
57. Getright – As a download manager, GetRight supports BitTorrent downloads too. In addition, you can use GetRight to schedule your downloads for later; it can dial your modem (if needed), download the files you want, then hang up or even shut down your computer when it is done.
58. DownThemAll – A powerful yet easy-to-use Mozilla Firefox extension that adds new advanced download capabilities to your browser.
59. Flashgot – A Firefox extension that allows you to handle single and massive downloads using the external download managers of your choice.
File Management
60. Eraser – An advanced security tool for Windows that allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.
61. Restoration – An easy to use and straight forward tool to undelete files that were removed from the recycle bin or directly deleted from within Windows (we were able to recover photos from a Flash card that had been formatted).
Torrent Manager
62. Azureus – A popular torrent manager that allows you to install plug-in and tweak your own settings.
63. µTorrent – A very, very tiny BitTorrent client that packs enough features into that small package to compete with beefier applications like Azureus.
64. Bitcomet – A bit torrent manager that allows videos files to be previewed while they’re still being downloaded, and there’s a built-in chat tool that lets users chat with other peers in the swarm.
Backup Program
65. Cobian Backup – A multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network.
66. Back4Win – A backup program that uses industry standard ZIP compression to ensures that your data will be accessible regardless of which PC operating system. Does not have 4Gb and 65535 file limit of other ZIP backup programs.
67. DriveImage XML – This software allows you to backup logical drives and partitions to image files, browse these images, view and extract files, restore these images to the same or a different drive and copy directly from drive to drive.
68. JaBackup – JaBackup allows advanced automation features. You can schedule backup tasks by the second or minute, or on a hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis.
69. Xdrive Desktop – Xdrive gives you 5GB of online storage space to store and backup your files. The Xdrive desktop software allows you to backup and synchronize your data with the web server with few mouse clicks.
70. Gmail Space – Use your Gmail account as storage by uploading and downloading files through a browser-based interface.
File Compression
71. 7-zip – This software compresses files in new 7z format with LZMA compression. It supports multi formats, including 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS.
72. Winzip – Using WinZip, you can quickly and easily compress and decompress files, folders, and entire folder trees to save storage space and reduce e-mail-transmission time, as well as encrypt and decrypt your sensitive documents.
73. AutoUnpack – This is designed to unpack your compressed file in a single quick step. You merely point to a folder containing your ZIP or RAR files and choose an output directory. Press one button to start a process that ends with your archive perfectly unpacked, or let the program automatically unpack that directory every set number of minutes.
74. ExtractNow – A simple program allows you to extract more than one archived file at a time, with one click of a button, making extracting files quicker and easier.
System Optimization and Diagnostic Tool
75. CCleaner – A system optimization and privacy tool that removes unused files from your system and allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space.
76. Security Process Explorer – An enhanced task manager, that provides advanced information about programs and processes running on the computer. It displays all the standard information, including file name, directory path, description, CPU usage etc. as well as a unique security risk rating.
77. CPU-Z – This mini software allows you to find out everything about your computer. You can find information such as processor name and vendor, core stepping and process, processor package, internal and external clocks, clock multiplier, partial overclock detection, and processor features including supported instructions sets.
78. EULAlyzer – This takes your EULA agreement and analyze it in seconds, and provide a detailed listing of potentially interesting words and phrases. Discover if the software you’re about to install displays pop-up ads, transmits personally identifiable information, uses unique identifiers to track you, or more. It is great for picking out privacy issues.
79. Process Explorer – An advanced process management utility that picks up where Task Manager leaves off. It will show you detailed information about a process including its icon, command-line, full image path, memory statistics, user account, security attributes, and more.
80. Auslogics Disk Defrag – This software was designed to remedy system sluggishness and crashes caused by disk fragmentation. It is fast, simple to easy and what’s more, it is effective.
81. SmartDefrag – SmartDefrag boasts a system checker that continually defrags the files that you use the most, and does it without becoming a persistent drag on your system resources. The “Install It and Forget It” feature works automatically and quietly in the background on your computer and it only eats up 14MB of RAM, so it’s possible to run it smoothly on older machines.
82. Local Cooling – Fight global warming from your desktop! Local Cooling automatically optimizes your PC’s power consumption by using a more effective power save mode.
83. Belarc Advisor – Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware and analyzes elements such as whether antivirus software is up to date, or whether all the security flaws in Windows have been patched.
Email Client
84. Thundrebird – Thunderbird makes e-mailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry’s best implementations of features, such as intelligent spam filters, a built-in RSS reader, and quick search.
85. Eudora – A robust e-mail client whose features include multiple address-book-formatting options and the ability to filter, redirect, and forward mail. It supports QuickTime- and HTML-enriched e-mail, letting you include stylized, formatted text and in-line graphics in your messages.
86. Opera Mail – Opera Mail is integrated with the Opera browser, and lets you send, receive, sort and search your e-mails quicker and easier than with conventional e-mail programs.
87. Sylpheed – A surprisingly versatile email client. ‘Surprisingly’ because it has a friendly, easy to use interface to its many useful features.
88. PopTray – The premier pop-up mail checker for standard POP3 and IMAP mail accounts, including Gmail, and it can be coaxed to work with HTML-only mail such as Hotmail by following the instructions at the PopTray site.
Photo Organizer
89. Google Picasa – A free software that helps you locate and organize all the photos on your computer, edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks and share your photos with others through email, prints and on the web.
90. Xnview – A fast multi-format graphics browser, viewer, and converter. It has an Explorer-like browser that allows quick and simple browsing of directory contents.
91. FxFoto – This software provides a single tool for automatically organizing, enhancing, annotating, e-mailing, printing, uploading, and archiving your digital photos.
92. Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.0 – This software makes it easy to find, fix, and share your digital photos. Instantly fix photo flaws in just a click or two.
93. Jalbum – A gallery software that makes web albums from your digital images.
Video Converter
94. Free FLV Converter – This free software let you search youTube and dailyMotion videos without opening your browser and you can even watch the videos using the built-in video player.
95. Free Video To iPhone Converter – Convert video files to Apple iPhone MP4 video format. Convert the whole movie or select a partition from the movie to convert (trim video).
96. Any Video Converter – An all-in-one video converting freeware with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed, and excellent video quality.
97. iPod Video Converter – Free iPod Video Converter provides an easy and completed way to convert all popular video formats to iPod video.
FTP client
98. Filezilla – A full-featured FTP client that supports Secure FTP, SSL, and other protocols in a slick interface, complete with a tree-structured site manager that lets you store settings for multiple sites.
99. SmartFTP – An FTP client which allows you to transfer files between your local computer and a server on the Internet. SmartFTP offers secure, reliable and efficient transfers that make it a powerful tool.
100. FireFTP – FireFTP turns your browser into an FTP client, with a two-pane file manager for uploading and downloading.
EyeCandy
101. Yahoo Widget – A small, specific applications that you can run on your Windows or Mac OS desktop. You can download tons of useful widget from the widget gallery.

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Thanks to Sunny (CEO) for recommending another free software. Here is it:
102. Process Scanner – This application gives you a complete analysis of all the processes running on your PC, along with a risk analysis of each one.