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Download of the Week
Our regular feature of the best software and freeware downloads on the Web. Only great quality apps tested by our staff make the cut.
ModernMix lets you run Windows 8 apps as desktop apps
- Stardock already offers a way to bring back the familiar Start menu in Windows 8 instead of the much criticized tile-based home screen. But if you’d still like to use “Metro” apps from Microsoft’s Windows Store and can’t wrap your…
Download of the Week: Pokki brings back Start Menu in Windows 8
- Windows 8’s touch-focused Metro interface has been met with quite a bit of resistance from longtime desktop users. But Microsoft’s not backing down. The company has made a risky but necessary bet to gain a strong foothold into the tablet…
Download of the Week: Black Mesa 1.0
- Black Mesa, the long-anticipated fan remake of Half-Life, has officially gone live today after eight years in development. For those hearing about this mod project for the first time, it involves a ground-up rewrite of Half-Life using Valve's Source Engine,…
Download of the Week: Microsoft Flight
- As promised, Microsoft has made their latest flight simulator game available to the masses as a free download today. The announcement came a few hours in advance of their Windows 8 Consumer Preview event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona,…
Download of the Week: Chrome Remote Desktop
- Call it an obsession of ours, in the past two years that we've had our Download of the Week feature, we've recommended several different applications to remotely manage a range of PCs or hardware around you.
Download of the Week: Process Manager for Windows
- Process Manager for Windows is a simple utility that adds a few handy options to Windows' context menu when right-clicking on a taskbar item. The app runs silently in your system tray and eats less than 1MB of RAM. Though…
Download of the Week: Mouse Without Borders
- Mouse Without Borders lets you control different computers seamlessly across a range of monitors sitting next to each other using the same mouse and keyboard. Think of it as software KVM on steroids, similar to programs like Synergy (open-source and…
Download of the Week: VirtualBox
- VirtualBox is a powerful cross-platform virtualization manager that will enable you to run a virtual operating system on your PC. You can run Windows and Linux on a Mac, for example, and switch back and forth between the different operating…
Download of the Week: PCMark 7
- After a short delay, Futuremark has delivered the next major release of its PCMark full-system benchmarking tool for Windows 7. The newest version, PCMark 7, was designed taking modern hardware into account, including solid-state drives, CPUs with integrated graphics and…
Download of the Week: uTorrent 3.0 beta
- The beta of uTorrent 3.0 was officially released today. This update to the popular BitTorrent client introduces a wide range of new features and improvements that have been tested in the last few months, including the option to rate and…
Download of the Week: Droplr and WinDroplr
- Droplr is a web-based service that makes sharing things like images, notes, links and just about any type of file you'd use on your computer dead simple. Using a companion desktop application, users can hit a keystroke to take a…
Download of the Week: InvisibleHand browser add-on
- InvisibleHand is a price comparison browser extension for Firefox 3.5+, Google Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer that notifies you if a product you are looking at on a particular online store is available for less from another retailer. Although it…
Download of the Week: AIDA64 + giveaway!
- We've announced the winners of our latest giveaway for five AIDA64 Extreme Edition license keys. You will be contacted by email throughout the day with instructions on how to claim your prize. Thanks to everyone who joined the contest!
Download of the Week: Microsoft Image Composite Editor
- Microsoft Image Composite Editor is a neat little tool from the software giant’s research group that uses a powerful stitching engine to create panoramic photos. You can simply load the individual shots – taken from a single camera location –…
Download of the Week: LookInMyPC
- LookInMyPC is a free tool for Windows that generates a complete, comprehensive profile of your system including information on everything from the hardware to connected peripherals, installed programs, networking information, running processes, and Registry run entries. Everything is presented in…
Download of the Week: Soluto
- Soluto bills itself as an anti-frustration software that leverages the collective knowledge of users to tell you which specific applications are bogging down your computing experience. Although eventually the developer plans to offer more functionality, for now the frustration they’re…
Download of the Week: PC Decrapifier
- For years, computer makers have managed to pull in a few extra bucks of profit out of each sale by bundling all sorts of third-party software with their machines. Commonly referred to as bloatware or crapware, these programs include everything…
Download of the Week: IrfanView + IrfanView PlugIns
- IrfanView is a compact, fast and friendly viewer with support for a large number of media formats. Among its features are support for batch processing, creation of panorama images, editing of multi-page TIFF files, lossless JPEG rotation, obtaining icons from…
Download of the Week: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, HWiNFO32
- Taking a little departure from our usual 'Download of the Week' posts today I want to highlight not one, but two programs that we recently became official mirrors for (along with CCEnhancer which was featured last week). The first of…
Download of the Week: CCEnhancer
- CCleaner has long been one of our favorite system optimization, privacy and cleaning tools. This free program makes it easy to clean temporary and unnecessary files that accumulate on your system over time, allowing Windows to run faster and freeing…
Download of the Week: SMPlayer
- VLC supports a plethora of codecs out of the box, it can transcode files from one format to another or even rip DVDs, is available on multiple platforms, and was recently updated to include GPU decoding. For the longest time…
Download of the Week: Synergy+
- Those of you who run dual monitor setups know it's a godsend for productivity with the freedom it gives for multitasking. Granted, some might find it hard to justify buying a secondary display for their day-to-day computing needs. But if…
Download of the Week: Spotlight on Windows
- Spotlight on Windows is a free, easy to install tool that provides immediate visual feedback on pretty much everything going on with your system's internals, from CPU and memory usage to the actual traffic between these components. You can see…
Download of the Week: Dexpot
- Virtual desktop applications can be a blessing for serious multitaskers juggling multiple open applications on a daily basis, especially when there's no room in the budget for a second monitor. Dexpot allows you to create up to 20 total workspaces…
Download of the Week: Adobe Creative Suite 5 trial versions
- Love it or hate it, Adobe has become a household name synonymous with media design and creation. The company's extensive software portfolio is used every day by professionals and freelancers working in creative sectors from web and print design to…
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