1. Download Mozilla Firefox 9.0 Alpha 2 Aurora / 10.0 Alpha 1 Nightly

Mozilla Firefox is almost the most popular Internet Browser among the internet users. Mozilla is working really hard so that it’s scheduled that there will be a new release every 6 weeks, and it may change it to 5 weeks or less. The last release date for the builds was 13 Oct 2011. Firefox 9.0a2 Aurora / 8.0b3 Beta / 7.0.1 Final were released some time ago. More about it Here:

2. 3 Apple’s SIRI alternative for Android mobile phones

Its been a couple of weeks since the launch of Apple iPhone 4S. It is very much the same like iPhone 4 but the one feature which is catching everyone’s attention is the iPhone’s Virtual personal assistant SIRI which can talk with you in real time and handles the queries really well. But many of us either don’t want to buy an iPhone 4S just for SIRI or it is not available to many of us. More about it Here:

3. Winzip – Review

The software which comes in your mind when you think of file compression is Winzip, but how many of you have actually checked the complete feature list of Winzip which is not only comprehensive but also its very simple to use. Let’s talk of its basic feature which is it specializes in ZIP archives and it also extracts other file types which are compressed which includes Zip,TAR, RAR, ISO and others. More about it Here:

4. Firefox 9.0 Alpha 2 / 10.0 Alpha 1 with new features

Firefox 9.0 Alpha 2/10.0 Alpha 1 released come with the bundle of new feature to server better to users. New version comes up with the friendly and customizable browsing feature for all. As Firefox is much familiar name in the browsing world, and I think many of you guys love to use it because it’s fast and give a very good browsing experience.More about it Here:

The world's most popular Zip utility WinZip has released a new version. WinZip 14.5 represents one of the most significant enhancements to WinZip in years! This release delivers an entirely new user experience*, unveiling numerous key features and dramatically simplifying the product. With its unprecedented level of functionality and unparalleled user interface, no wonder WinZip is far and away the world's leading application for file compression, encryption, sharing, and data backup.

New features in WinZip 14.5 include:
* Microsoft Office 2010-style ribbon interface places key WinZip functionality right at your fingertips, simplifying essential tasks and increasing your productivity
* Support for Windows 7 Libraries, Jump Lists, Multi-Touch Gestures, and more makes working with Zip files effortless
* 'Zip' option on the Home tab works the way you think, letting you select the files you want to zip up, choose your zipping options, and save your Zip file wherever you decide
* 'Encrypt' check box makes it easier than ever to password protect your confidential files Read the rest of this entry »

WinZip is the original and most trusted file compression software for Windows. No other compression utility is as easy-to-use or offers the comprehensive feature set and productivity-enhancing approach that has made WinZip the gold standard in file compression tools.

With the newest version of WinZip, we can do many things in arhive as we do in the common folders. Read the rest of this entry »

WinZip is the world's most popular Zip utility for file compression, encryption, packaging, and data backup. With WinZip 14.0 Build 8688, it's easy to zip and unzip files for quick, efficient, and secure file transfer, email transmission, and data storage. Zip, Zipx, RAR, 7Z, BZ2, CAB, JAR, IMG, and other compressed file types are supportive.

Generally, WinZip 14.0 Build 8688 has the following features:
* Deep integration with Windows, including Windows 7
* zipping security and Simplicity improvement
* Conserve storage space, speed up e-mail Transmission, and reduce download times
* photo and image compression without any loss of photo quality or data integrity.
* Strong AES encryption for securing sensitive data

Besides, in WinZip 14.0 Build 8688, it takes advantage of Windows 7, security improvements and zipping simplicity. Details are as follows: Read the rest of this entry »

WinZip is the world's most popular Zip utility for file compression, encryption, packaging, and data backup. WinZip 14.0 Build 8652 adds new Windows 7 support and the security is highly enhanced at the same time. Files and folders could be easily found in the new dialogs.

See what's new in WinZip 14.0 Build 8652:
- Windows 7 support: Windows 7 includes many significant enhancements that simplify working with documents, folders, and programs. WinZip 14 takes full advantage of these new features to make working with your Zip files effortless: Libraries, Jump Lists, Explorer Preview, Touch Screen Gestures, and more.
- Enhanced security: The powerful and easy-to-use AED encryption in WinZip is the reason why so many people choose. In WinZip 14.0 Build 8652, it enhances Wipes (shreds) temporary copies of AES encrypted files
- Simplified Zipping: New dialogs make it easier to find files, folders, and libraries

In a word, WinZip is totally better than ever, try WinZip 14.0 Build 8652 right now on Brothersoft.com!

Previously, we shared the necessary software in a fresh PC on BT download manager, video player and audio player. The final parts, we will list some specific software recommendation on Image Viewer, System Optimizer and File Compressor.

1. Image Viewer
First Choice: IrfanView
Alternative: ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 / Google Picasa

Once you came back from a holiday, with several GB photos, but your windows system are out of power. Windows picture viewers basically cannot meet your demand since there were few improvements since Windows 98. Consequently, a fine image viewer is of necessity.

IrfanView
IrfanView is a total free image viewer and converter with a clear interface. As the loading speed is very fast, IrfanView almost supports all the picture formats and part of audio and video files, including MPG and AVI format, the two common ones in digital camera functions. IrfanView is also a powerful image editor, resizing, color picking, adding words and special effects. Basically, IrfanView is satisfactory to normal image editing features. What's more mentioning, Adobe Photoshop filter is also available in IrfanView.

ACDSee Photo Manager 2009
ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 really owns plenty of image editing features, including red eyes removing, sharpening, exposure and other simple special effects. Additionally, ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 is compatible to current major brand digital cameras. Read picture files directly in cameras which are connected with computers. Particular plug-ins is needed for automatic operation towards cameras. Despite the expensive price and slow start-up speed, ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 can be regarded as a wonderful image viewer. For its 50 dollars, we didn’t consider it on the top choice place. Read the rest of this entry »

Focusing in the download statistics of our servers, we've selected the ten most downloaded programs during 2008, and we've chosen them from the various software categories. Performance, quality and characteristics provided by these titles were also taken into account for the final compilation of the list.


WinZip is the most trusted way to work with compressed files. No other compression utility is as easy-to-use or offers the comprehensive and productivity-enhancing approach that has made WinZip the gold standard for file-compression tools.

User Interface
Its powerful and easy to use Wizard/Classic interfaces are suitable both beginners and experienced users. It is fully customizable thanks to the use of skins
Highlight Features
This is without a doubt the best and most comprehensive tool for managing compressed files when the ZIP format is concerned. It also supports a few other compression formats. Its strength lies in its ease of use and options. It also provides advanced encryption, internal administration of the contents of compressed files, JPEG compression, support for antivirus, size calculation, support for UUencoded, XXencoded, BinHex, and MIME and much more etc..
Use and Help
Users have the ability to create self-extracting archives, splitting and joining of files, they are also enabled to execute files located within a compressed file and it will be very easy to use thanks to its WinZip Wizard full integration with Windows.
Price/Value
It costs $29.95 and there is a 45-days limited trial edition


Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program which is the current and primary market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been described as "an industry standard for graphics professionals" and was one of the early "killer applications" on the Macintosh.

User Interface
It has a very practical and professional interface with no title bar and divided into panels which can be minimized for a workspace maximization.
Highlight Features
The perfection and accuracy of this application made of it the standard software for photo retouching It is also extensively used in many disciplines in the design and photography fields, such as web design, bitmap images composition, digital styling, photography, graphics and video editing and basically any activity that requires digital image processing. It supports many image files formats such as BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, among others, also having some of its own like PSD, PDD which allow layers, channels and guides saving. Its work is focused in the manipulation and edition of pixels.
Use and Help
It has an amazing load of functions and possibilities including the use of hundred of filters, clipping, cropping, copying and pasting, the use of layers, Smart Object Tool, Image Warp, Spot healing brush, Red-Eye effect reducing tool, Lens Correction filter, Smart Sharpen, Vanishing Point and so many others, all of the of great importance in the process of home-made and professional photo retouching.
Price/Value
It costs $699, the free trial offers a 30-days full functionality period.


Use Yahoo! Messenger to chat with friends for free and enjoy stealth settings, PC calls, file sharing, photo sharing, SMS, emoticons, and more.

User Interface
It has a very attractive tabbed interface, smart and easy to use
Highlight Features
This is one of the most complete instant messaging clients available. It send files, perform voice conversations and even video conferences. This is one the most innovative IM clients in terms of new features and its is also very stable. An important feature enables users to send messages to offline users, which will be received upon connection. Furthermore, it presents no annoying advertising, stealth/privacy settings, and it is very easy to use and has a very elegant design.
Use and Help
Besides most common IM clients functionality, Yahoo! Messenger offers PC-to-PC calls, SMS, a calendar of events/appointments (which users can share with other people), a news section, games, and weather forecast. It supports the use of avatars and emoticons.
Price/Value
Best – Free. Read the rest of this entry »

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PowerArchiver is my favorite general purpose archiving program which I use to compress multiple files into one archive package and also to extract compressed archive files. There are many types of archiving software but I prefer to use PowerArchiver because the graphical user interface is very similar to WinZIP which I am very comfortable with and also its native support for most popular compressed and encoded formats such as ZIP, 7-ZIP, CAB, LHA (LZH), TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, BH, XXE, UUE, yENC, and MIME (Base 64), RAR, ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO plus ISO, BIN, IMG and NRG disc image formats.

However when I am away at my client's place, there were a few times when I needed to extract a RAR file but Windows natively doesn't support RAR format. I always try my best not to mess around or install any unneeded software on my client's PC or server but I had no choice and had to download and install WinRAR just to extract one file. There is a PowerArchiver 2007 for U3 USB Drives which I can install on my SanDisk U3 Titanium smart drive but I've already uninstalled/removed U3 LaunchPad. Moreover, the latest PowerArchiver is 2009 and I don't want to use the old version 2007 version.

I found the ultimate universal archive extractor which is portable and I can carry around in my USB flash drive.

Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract files from any type of archive, whether it's a simple zip file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package. This application is not intended to be a general purpose archiving program. It will never replace WinRAR, 7-Zip, etc. What it will do is allow you to extract files from virtually any type of archive, regardless of source, compression method, etc.

The original motivation behind this project was that the author wanted an easy, convenient way to extract files from installation packages, such as Inno Setup or Windows Installer packages, without pulling up a command line every time. In the process he got a little carried away and ended up throwing in support for every kind of archive format he possibly could find. Universal Extractor is written in AutoIt, a powerful open source scripting language. Universal Extractor itself, however, is just a front-end that uses many other programs to do the dirty work. If you're curious about the "other" programs that is doing the dirty work, check out the BIN folder.

Basically Universal Extractor is NOT an extracting program. It is only a script that automates the whole process. When I want to extract a RAR file with Universal Extractor, it will begin by scanning the file with TrID. If the file format matches the RAR format, it immediately begins extraction from the archive using the tools located in BIN folder.

Universal Extractor is free and a very handy tool to carry along with me in my USB flash drive. As a computer guy, it is important for us to carry the right tools all the time so we will be prepared to face any kind of situation without wasting extra time.

Download Portable Universal Extractor 1.6

ALZip 7.0
License - Freeware
Publisher - ESTsoft
ZIP tool to extract 36 and create 8 formats, make SFX files, recover passwords



Key Features
1 - Open CD image files (ISO, BIN)
2 - Open virtual CD files (LCD)
3 - Recover lost passwords from ZIP files
4 - Split large files for easy transfers
5 - Integrate anti-virus software
6 - Background/Foreground Zipping

Why the software is Picked by Brothersoft Editor
1 - Freeware
2 - Faster than ever
3 - Open 36 ZIP, archive and compression file formats
4 - Create 8 ZIP, archive and compression file formats

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Book Writer 5.10
License - shareware
Publisher - Yadu Digital, Inc.
Write your books, papers, stories–anything you write–faster, better, easier.


Key Features
1，Organize your writings in visual projects to eliminate thinking in computerese.
2，Eliminate needless business functions from your word editor
3，Get your writings out of computer space and, symbolically, into your hands in front of you

Why the software is picked by BrotherSoft Editor
1 - Use titles instead of system file names to identify the parts of your writings
2 - Open, copy, or move files by clicking on titles in a project's tree diagram.
3 - Drag and drop a project's symbol to copy or move all its files.

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