Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is a free antivirus software product created by Microsoft that provides protection against different types of malware such as computer virus, spyware, rootkits and trojan horses for Windows XP (x86), Windows Vista, and Windows 7 (both x86 and x64). Microsoft Security Essentials replaces Windows Live OneCare, a commercial subscription-based antivirus service and the free Windows Defender, which only protected users from adware and spyware. Unlike Microsoft Forefront family of enterprise-oriented security products, Microsoft Security Essentials is geared for consumer use.

Microsoft Security Essentials received positive reviews upon its release.

Size : 7.1 MB

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is a free antivirus software product created by Microsoft that provides protection against different types of malware such as computer virus, spyware, rootkits and trojan horses for Windows XP (x86), Windows Vista, and Windows 7 (both x86 and x64). Microsoft Security Essentials replaces Windows Live OneCare, a commercial subscription-based antivirus service and the free Windows Defender, which only protected users from adware and spyware. Unlike Microsoft Forefront family of enterprise-oriented security products, Microsoft Security Essentials is geared for consumer use.

Microsoft Security Essentials received positive reviews upon its release.

Size : 7.1 MB

Xobni is a San Francisco-based email startup. It was founded in March 2006 by Adam Smith and Matt Brezina from Adam’s dorm room in Cambridge, Massachusetts as part of the Y Combinator summer founder’s program. In late 2006, it relocated to San Francisco when the founders felt that the environment there was more suited to grow their company.

In March 2007, Xobni raised US$4.26 million from Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, and Atomico, along with a number of angel investors.

Xobni’s first product, Xobni Insight, was launched into private beta on September 18, 2007, at the TechCrunch 40 conference. Xobni Insight plugs into Microsoft Outlook and offers fast search and people-based navigation of email archives. The company has hinted at plans to offer the same functionality for other email clients. Xobni Insight has received mostly positive coverage, although initial versions had performance problems on large inboxes. The company opened its beta to the public on May 5, 2008 and has since garnered media coverage from a number of blogs and media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe and Cnet.

In February 2008, Xobni hired Jeff Bonforte, a Vice President at Yahoo!, as their CEO. In the same month, Bill Gates gave a demo of Xobni at the Office Developers’ Conference. This led to rumors of a US$20 million acquisition by Microsoft, which the company reportedly rejected.

Cisco Systems, which has been expanding its workplace collaboration tools, has taken an interest in Xobni. Xobni announced on January 5, 2009 that it closed a $7 million round of financing, its second, with Cisco as a new investor. The company’s previous investors Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures and Atomico also participated. The website CrunchBase has total funding at $14.6 million for the San Francisco based software development company.

There have been a lot of questions since the product release of how Xobni planned to make money and the scope of their products. In July of 2009 Xobni released a paid version of its product called Xobni Plus, offered initially for $30. Xobni Plus includes features such as advanced search, appointment search, the ability to search multiple PST archives, no ads, and one year support. In Free Studio version 4.2 Xobni is included in the .exe setup.

“Xobni” is the word “inbox” spelled backwards. It is pronounced Zob-nee.

Size : 6.3 MB

The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing animations and movies using computer programs such as a web browser. Flash Player is a widely distributed proprietary multimedia and application player created by Macromedia and now developed and distributed by Adobe after its acquisition. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other Macromedia and third party tools.

Adobe Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both a multimedia authoring program and the Adobe Flash Player, written and distributed by Adobe, that uses vector and raster graphics, a native scripting language called ActionScript and bidirectional streaming of video and audio. Strictly speaking, Adobe Flash is the authoring environment and Flash Player is the virtual machine used to run the Flash files, but in colloquial language these have become mixed: “Flash” can mean either the authoring environment, the player, or the application files.

Flash Player has support for an embedded scripting language called ActionScript (AS), which is based on ECMAScript. Since its inception, ActionScript has matured from a script syntax without variables to one that supports object-oriented code, and may now be compared in capability to JavaScript (another ECMAScript-based scripting language).

The Flash Player was originally designed to display 2-dimensional vector animation, but has since become suitable for creating rich Internet applications and streaming video and audio. It uses vector graphics to minimize file size and create files that save bandwidth and loading time. Flash is a common format for games, animations, and GUIs embedded into web pages.

Size : 2.7 MB

Free and easy CD & DVD burning solution. Burn data, audio, video to your CDs & DVDs is now very easy. Audio format supported : WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG, FLAC, AAC, M4A. Burn and save ISO files, copy your DVDs. Burn your dvd-video. Save your favorite audio CDs to mp3 with the internal grabber. Support for dual-layer DVD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW. Standard ISO9660 & Joliet, buffer UnderRun protection, and Multisession support. Version 4.0 is a bug fixing release.

Size : 4.4 MB

XAMPP (pronounced /ˈzæmp/ or /ˈɛks.æmp/) is a free and open source cross-platform web server package, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.

Size : 52.4 MB

Avast! Antivirus is an antivirus program developed by AVAST Software a.s. (former ALWIL Software a.s.), a company based in Prague, Czech Republic. It was first released in 1988. Avast! is based on a central scanning engine that is certified by ICSA Labs and West Coast Lab’s Checkmark process and incorporates anti-spyware technology, also certified by West Coast Lab’s Checkmark process, as well as anti-rootkit and self-protection capabilities. It is a multiple recipient of the Virus Bulletin VB100 Award, for detection of 100% of “in-the-wild” viruses, and is a past winner of the Secure Computing Readers’ Trust Award.

Avast! Free Antivirus is the freeware version of Avast! antivirus software available to Microsoft Windows and Linux users, while Avast! Pro Antivirus is offered to businesses and users that want additional features. Priority updates are delivered automatically using PUSH update technology in Avast! Pro Antivirus. Avast! Pro Antivirus also has a command line scanner and a script blocker.

Avast! Antivirus is a widely used antivirus program, with 100 million users worldwide as of December 2009.

Size : 51 MB

PrimoPDF is a freeware program that creates a PDF file from Microsoft Windows documents. It works as a virtual printer. It does not present the user with advertisements. PrimoPDF is developed by the same company that develops the commercial Nitro PDF software.

PrimoPDF requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. When the program runs, it connects with www.primopdf.com each time it prints. This can be stopped with a firewall, or by disabling automatic updates within the program settings. It uses the Ghostscript file format converter and RedMon (software) printer redirection software.

According to its documentation, PrimoPDF has the following features:

• Consistent PDF creation. Use PrimoPDF’s creation profiles to produce the same kind of PDF file every time. Profiles include Screen, eBook, Print, Prepress, and Custom.
• Append PDF files. Combine each newly created PDF file into the one PDF.
• Secure PDF. Protect and encrypt your information with strong password-based PDF security.
• PDF metadata. Set the document properties information fields, — including author, title, subject, and keywords—to index your PDF files and make them easier to search.
• PDF versions. Create different version PDF files: 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5

Size : 7.6 MB

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser. On December 7, 2004, version 1.0 was released, and received over 500,000 downloads in its first three days of release, and 1,000,000 in 10 days.

Size : 8.8  MB

Safari is a graphical web browser developed by Apple and included as part of the Mac OS X operating system. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company’s Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple’s default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 “Panther.” Safari is also the native browser for the iOS. A version of Safari for the Microsoft Windows operating system, first released on June 11, 2007, supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. The latest stable release of the browser is 5.0, which is available as a free download for both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. As of 2010^[update], Safari was either the third or fourth most widely used browser, tied with Google Chrome.

Size : 30.9  MB