Download of the Week

Adobe Photoshop Express is a simplified photo editing app built for quick fixes and social media-ready images. Available for free on Windows, iOS and Android, it offers one-touch tools for cropping, filters, retouching, and more.

AnyDesk is a simple, yet free, option for secure remote access or screen sharing. This portable app is lightweight, and all data is encrypted using TLS 1.2 and 256-bit AES.

Popular image viewer IrfanView has been updated with multithreading support for batch conversion, a new "Fit to Window" zoom option, a stained glass effect, additional slideshow hotkeys, and various other enhancements.

Sound Booster amplifies all audio before it reaches your sound card, allowing you to set a volume level beyond maximum. Hard to hear dialogue? Try Sound Booster. It works seamlessly with media players, browsers, games, and more.

If you rely on Windows search but are constantly frustrated by slow, inconsistent results and a cluttered UX filled with Bing results and ads, check out Everything. The lean utility delivers lightning-fast results from your file indexes with zero bloat.

Spotify's latest update simplifies and extends the Queue options allowing for a more personalized playlist experience. A new "30-day snooze" feature has been added, along with other music-curation tools.

AMD's latest Radeon GPU drivers not only bring optimizations for Doom: The Dark Ages and F1 25, but introduce FSR 4 support for more than a dozen games including Ghost of Tsushima, Frostpunk 2 and GTA V Enhanced.

Dopamine is an elegant audio player designed to make organizing and listening to music as simple as possible. The team has just released a new preview of version 3 for Windows, macOS, and Linux. New features include a mini player, gapless playback, and more.

As the Minecraft community counts down to the highly anticipated Summer Drop 2025, Mojang is setting the stage with the Bedrock 1.21.80 update, introducing new Flat World presets. The update also brings improvements to gameplay, the UI, and greater parity between the Bedrock and Java editions.

DaVinci Resolve 20 beta 2 adds a redesigned vertical timeline, improved keyframe editing, and new AI tools like Animated Subtitles and Multicam SmartSwitch. The update also includes speed keyframe refinements, voiceover fixes, and builds on over 150 features introduced in the first beta. It's available now as a free update.

Cyberduck is a free file-transfer client for Windows and Mac. It supports a wide range of services, including SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, Backblaze, Azure, OpenStack, OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox.

PDFsam Basic is a free, cross-platform tool that allows you to perform a wide range of PDF tasks, including merging, splitting, rotating, and converting files. You can split PDFs by page number, file size, or bookmark levels, mix multiple PDFs, and more.

You can download and push your own hardware to the limits to run Nvidia's Zorah tech demo. The hefty 108 GB download is an Unreal Engine 5 project showcasing real-time neural rendering, path tracing, and advanced geometry on RTX 50-class hardware.

Fedora 42 introduces a streamlined WebUI installer, GNOME 48 enhancements, and official WSL support. Key features include improved accessibility, offline speech-to-text, and better performance through triple buffering and DNF5 upgrades.

DaVinci Resolve 19 offers advanced 8K video editing, color correction, VFX, and audio production tools in a free, industry-standard platform. The latest version introduces AI capabilities such as text-based editing, music remixing, dialogue separation, and IntelliTrack for seamless audio-video syncing.

OBS Studio lets you broadcast to YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and other platforms, as well as record videos from multiple sources including browser windows, webcams, and more. It's free and runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

FreeDOS is a free, open-source operating system compatible with MS-DOS. It's designed to run legacy DOS programs, including classic games and business software. This latest release features an updated FreeCOM, enhanced help, and improvements to utilities such as FDISK, 7-Zip, and FASM.

Proton VPN offers a free tier with unlimited data and access to one of three server locations with no time limits. The latest update introduces redesigned apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iPhone.

The Spring to Life update is now playable in Minecraft, featuring new ambient effects, mob variants, updated wolf sounds, improved sheep spawning, new spawn egg textures, and a long list of bug fixes.

Samsung's SSD Magician software keeps SSDs, memory cards, and USB drives performing at their best, while offering features for data migration, security, compatibility, and optimization. Get firmware updates and then some.

The Nvidia App has been updated to include Project G-Assist, an AI assistant that runs locally on RTX GPUs. The tool aims to helps users manage PC and gaming settings, monitor performance stats, and even control peripheral lighting. The update also adds customizable DLSS Super Resolution scaling (33% to 100%) and integrates more legacy CP features.

Calibre 8.0 improves Kobo support, adds the ability to connect folders and treat it as a device, which is particularly useful for Chromebook users, enhances the ToC editor, and updates book details. It also includes macOS icon updates, Tolino firmware support, and various bug fixes.

Oracle's Java 24 introduces more than 20 new features including language improvements, performance advancements, and bug fixes. Complete release notes can be found here.

The Kali Linux 2025.1a update introduces a refreshed theme, upgraded desktop environments (KDE Plasma and Xfce), and a significant kernel update for Raspberry Pi. Additionally, Kali NetHunter CAN brings portable car hacking capabilities and more.

Gimp, one of the best free alternatives to Photoshop, has officially reached version 3.0. This long-awaited update features an upgraded GTK3 user interface, improved PSD file export, support for BC7 DDS files, and various usability enhancements. Additionally, it offers significantly better tablet input support.