BurnAware Free Edition allows you to easily perform the most common disc burning tasks: write to all CD/DVD media types, including Blu-Ray; write Audio CDs and DVD-Video files; create and burn disc images; write multi-session discs and much more.

BurnAware Free Edition has a modern interface and supports Windows 98/NT/2000/XP and Vista (32 and 64 bit). The application is free and contains absolutely no adware or annoying banners.

Features:

• Absolutely FREE. No spyware, no adware, no banners
• Writes to all CD/DVD media types including Blu-Ray (BD-R/BD-RE)
• Writes discs from disc images
• Writes DVDs from DVD-Video files
• Writes Audio CDs from WAV, MP3, or WMA files
• Creates disc images
• Supports all current hardware interfaces
• On-the-fly writing for all image types
• Writes Multi-Session to all supported media formats
• Auto-verification of written files
• Supports unicode for multi-byte languages
• Clean, flexible, easy to use interface
• Supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista (32 and 64 Bit)

Download: BurnAware Free Edition 2.1.4
View: BurnAware Free Edition

Disney Interactive Studios has released a playable PC demo for Pure, allowng you to try out their fast-paced quad racing with massive jumps and airborne tricks in photo-realistic settings all over the globe. This PC demo features a tutorial and lets you race 3 laps on the Italian Mount Garda track.

Download: Pure Demo
View: Pure Website

FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more.

Changelog:

- Download speedlimits were not working since 3.1.3-beta1
- On very fast connections, sockets could receive close event before being marked active, leading to timeouts

Download: FileZilla 3.1.3.1
View: Filezilla Home Page

From the makers of CCleaner. Recuva (pronounced “recover”) is a freeware Windows utility to restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players. It will even bring back files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!

Changelog:

• Redesigned the Options window.
• Fixed bug related to Insufficient resources error.
• Improved handling of invalid file records.
• Various UI tweaks.
• Minor bug fixes.

Download: Recuva 1.19.350
View: Recuva Homepage

Firefox 3.0 is faster, more Reliable and more secure then any of the previous versions. The Firefox team has
worked hard to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 over a web browsing session, one of the biggest problems in the previous versions.

Firefox 3 sets the innovation bar very high with exciting new features, including one-click bookmarking, the smart location bar and lightning fast performance.

Firefox 3.0.3 fix a bug where users were unable to retrieve saved passwords or save new passwords (bug 454708)

What’s new in Firefox 3

More Security
- One click site info
- Malware Protection
- New Web Forgery Protection page
- New SSL error pages
- Add-ons and Plugin version check
- Secure add-on updates
- Anti-virus integration

Easier to Use
- Easier password management
- Simplified add-on installation
- New Download Manager
- Resumable downloading
- Tab scrolling and quickmenu
- Text selection improvements
- Find toolbar

More Personal
- Star button
- Tags
- Location bar and auto-complete
- Smart Places Folder
- Bookmarks and History Organizer
- Easy to use Download Actions

Download: Firefox 3.0.3 (English)
Download: Other Systems and Languages
View: Release Notes

Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. The goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. The intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firefox (or another stand alone browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on mozilla that “plays nice” with the browser

Keep Your Vital Information Organized
Thunderbird 2 features many new enhancements to help you better manage your unruly inbox, and stay informed. Thunderbird 2 scales to the most sophisticated organizational needs while making it easy to find what you need.

Secure and Protect Your Mail
Mozilla has bolstered Thunderbird’s acclaimed security and privacy measures to ensure that your communications and identity remain safe. It’s like having your own security guard online.

Get Your Mail, Your Way
Thunderbird allows you to customize your email to suit your specific needs whether it’s how you search and find messages or listening to music right out of your inbox.

Download: Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.17
View: Other languages and systems
View: Home Page

CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it’s fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) it’s free and contains no Spyware or Adware.

CCleaner has been tried and tested with Windows 98/NT4/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista. It’s currently partially compatible with 64bit XP and Vista, there are a few non-critical issues which are still being worked on.

Click to view changelog

Download: CCleaner 2.12.651
View: CCleaner Home Page

Digsby is a new, multi-network IM client that connects to all the big IM networks. AIM, ICQ, Hotmail, Yahoo, Google Talk and Jabber, and can integrate with your email, Facebook and Myspace accounts. Digsby’s goal is to give you one place to manage your online contacts.

Here are some key features of Digsby

Instant Messaging:
Supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and Facebook Chat.

Email:
Manage your Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP accounts right from digsby.
- Get popup notifications when new email arrives. Clicking a popup takes you right to the message with auto-login into webmail accounts.

Social Networking:
- Stay up to date with everything happening on your Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace account (other network support coming soon).
- Receive alerts of events such as new friend requests, messages, group invites, etc.

Take a look at Digsby’s home page for a complete feature list.

New and improved in Build 32:

• RAM Usage
• Performance
• Connectivity
• LinkedIn
• Bug Fixes

Download: Digsby Build 32
View: Release Announcement
View: Digsby Home Page

Some people seems to be unhappy with Windows Live Installer, and has requested
the old .msi installer packages, this is especially those who needs to install messenger on several
computers, and doesn’t want to connect to the Internet each time.

When you use the installer the traditional .msi packages are extracted to your computer and saved
for later use.

I decided to take these packages and make them available to those who wants them instead of the Windows Live installer.
The install files are run as a silent install, so you won’t be prompted for anything, further more
it does not “Set your browsers home page to MSN.com” or allow Microsoft to collect data about your installation.

Windows Live Installer includes the following:

Download: Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (14.0.5027.908)
Download: Windows Live Mail Wave 3 (14.0.5027.908)
Download: Windows Live Photo Gallery (14.0.5026.905)
Download: Windows Live Writer Wave 3 (14.0.5024.904)
Download: Windows Live Sign-in Assistant
Download: Windows Live Contacts

Other additional files that are included with the Wave 3 installer:

Download: dw20shared.msi
This Installer database contains the logic and data required to install Microsoft Application Error Reporting.
Download: SegoeFont.msi
This installer database contains the logic and data required to install Segoe UI.
Download: SQLServerCE31-EN.msi
This installer database contains the logic and data required to install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition [ENU]
Download: crt.msi
This installer database contains the logic and data required to install MSVCRT.
Download: wlc.msi
This installer database contains the logic and data required to install Windows Live Call.
Download: WindowsXP KB954708

View: Windows Live

BurnAware Free Edition allows you to easily perform the most common disc burning tasks: write to all CD/DVD media types, including Blu-Ray; write Audio CDs and DVD-Video files; create and burn disc images; write multi-session discs and much more.

BurnAware Free Edition has a modern interface and supports Windows 98/NT/2000/XP and Vista (32 and 64 bit). The application is free and contains absolutely no adware or annoying banners.

Features:

Absolutely FREE. No spyware, no adware, no banners
Writes to all CD/DVD media types including Blu-Ray (BD-R/BD-RE)
Writes discs from disc images
Writes DVDs from DVD-Video files
Writes Audio CDs from WAV, MP3, or WMA files
Creates disc images
Supports all current hardware interfaces
On-the-fly writing for all image types
Writes Multi-Session to all supported media formats
Auto-verification of written files
Supports unicode for multi-byte languages
Clean, flexible, easy to use interface
Supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista (32 and 64 Bit)

Changelog:

• Updated translations
• Fixed minor bug with drag and drop files to empty compilation

Download: BurnAware Free Edition 2.1.3
View: BurnAware Home Page