Top Freewware - Free PDF Converter - PrimoPDF V3.2

Convert to PDF from any application by simply 'printing' to the PrimoPDF® printer - it couldn't be easier! Within minutes, you can create high-quality PDFs by converting from Word, Excel, and virtually any other printable file type.

• Completely FREE PDF Converter - not just a trial version.


• Print to PDF from virtually any Windows® application.


• Create PDF output optmized for print, screen, ebook, or prepress.


• No annoying pop-up ads, no registration requirement - no catch!


• High-quality, easy to use PDF creator for all users.


• New! Ability to merge PDF files upon conversion.


• New! Now supports Windows Vista.

Platform - Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP / Vista

Size - 29.87MB

Website to Download - http://www.primopdf.com/

High Compression File Archiver - 7-Zip

"7-Zip" is a file archiver with the high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats. Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50% better than ratio in ZIP format.

Platform - Win95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/Vista

Cost - Free (GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL))

Size - 840K

Website to download - http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/

Small and fast PDF Reader - Foxit Reader

"Foxit Reader 2.2" is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 2.1 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and amazingly rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.

• The following is a list of compelling advantages of Foxit Reader:
  
• Incredibly small
  The download size of Foxit Reader is only 2.1 M which is a fraction of Acrobat Reader 20 M size.
  
• Breezing-fast
  When you run Foxit Reader, it launches instantly without any delay. You are not forced to view an annoying splash window displaying company logo, author names, etc.
  
• Annotation tool
  Have you ever wished to annotate (or comment on) a PDF document when you are reading it? Foxit Reader allows you to draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save the annotated document.
  
• Text converter
  You may convert the whole PDF document into a simple text file.
  
• High security and privacy
  Foxit Reader highly respects the security and privacy of users and will never connect to the Internet without users' permission. While other PDF readers often silently connect to the Internet in the background. Foxit PDF Reader does not contain any spyware.

Platform - Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista
Cost - Free
Size - 2.1MB
Website to Download - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/

The Ultimate Image Burner - ImgBurn Version 2.3.2.0

"ImgBurn" is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!

ImgBurn supports a wide range of image file formats - including BIN, DI, DVD, GI, IMG, ISO, MDS, NRG and PDI.

It's a very flexible application with several advanced features that are often lacking in other tools, especially when it comes to burning DVD Video discs. It supports all the latest drives without the need for updates (including booktype / bitsetting / advanced settings on many of the major ones - i.e. BenQ, LiteOn, LG, NEC, Plextor, Samsung, Sony).




Platform - Win XP/2000/Vista, Linux
Size - 1.5MB
Cost - Free
Website to Download - http://www.imgburn.com/

The Award-Winning Free Firewall Software - Comodo Free Firewall Version 2.4

"Comodo Firewall" is one of the smartest firewalls you can ever see. While providing answers to firewall questions, users usually do not understand the complex questions which involve complicated connection details like IP addresses, Ports, Application paths etc.

Comodo Firewall Pro helps you to understand what is going on by analyzing each alert and providing you an intuitive, easily understandable Security Considerations section with each question it asks.

With its built-in application database, Comodo Firewall Pro classifies more than 10.000 applications according to their risk level such as SAFE, SPYWARE, ADWARE etc. It is the only firewall which has such a big application database and which uses such a database to analyze the security risks.

Comodo Firewall Pro is a complete, easy to manage and effective barrier that keeps hackers out and personal information in.

Platform - Windows 2000 / XP / 2003

Size - 7.57MB

Cost - Free

Website to download - http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

All-in-One AVI/DVD Utility - Avi2Dvd Version 0.4.5 beta

Avi2Dvd is an All In One tool in order to convert with just few clicks an AVI/OGM/MKV/WMV/DVD to DVD/SVCD/VCD.

Supports multiple audiostreams and up to three textual external subtitles. From the version 0.3.4 and later it can support DV-AVI Videos, so it can handle captured avi's from digital videocameras. Avi2dvd can also produce semi professional dvd menus with chapter/audio/subtitles buttons with extreme facility !

Platform - Win XP / Vista

Size - 2.4MB

Cost - Free

Website to Download - http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAvi2Dvd.html

Accelerate Web Browsing - Google Web Accelerator

"Google Web Accelerator" is an application that uses the power of Google's global computer network to make web pages load faster. Google Web Accelerator is easy to use; all you have to do is download and install it, and from then on many web pages will automatically load faster than before.

Google Web Accelerator uses various strategies to make your web pages load faster, including:

• Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling Google Web Accelerator traffic.
• Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly accessible.
• Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since you last viewed it.
• Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance.
• Managing your Internet connection to reduce delays.
• Compressing data before sending it to your computer.

Platform - Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP 3+ with Internet Explorer or Firefox
Size - 1.65MB
Cost - Free
Website to Download - http://webaccelerator.google.com/index.html


* There is a small display on the menu bar of your browser where it will display the total time saved. For me, I have been using Firefox today for over 3 hours and the total time saved was 6.2 minutes. Not bad.

Three Times Faster Download - BitComet Ultra Accelerator

"BitComet Ultra Accelerator" is an effective plug-in for BitComet P2P. The program includes most modern technology that is used to increase speed of BitComet downloads. Also the number of your download sources will be improved - you can have more seeds available than normally revealed by your BitComet. Interface is beautiful and easy to use.

Features includes:

• Finished and wrong files are cleaned automatically;
• Finds more sources at user-specified intervals;
• Interface is easy to use and good-looking;
• Interface is easy operable by a system tray icon;
• Automatically resumes paused downloads;
• Configuration from last run is saved and auto loads on start-up;
• Clean and free, without any adware or spyware.

Platform - Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Size - 1.34MB
Cost - Free
Website to Download - http://www.trafficspeeders.com/

Free CD/DVD Burner Solution - InfraRecorder Version 0.43.1

"InfraRecorder version 0.43.1" is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features. The features includes:

• Create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images.
• Supports recording to dual-layer DVDs.
  
• Blank (erase) rewritable discs using four different methods.
• Record disc images (ISO and BIN/CUE).
  
• Fixate discs (write lead-out information to prevent further data from being added to the disc).
• Scan the SCSI/IDE bus for devices and collect information about their capabilities.
  
• Create disc copies, on the fly and using a temporary disc image.
• Import session data from multi-session discs and add more sessions to them.
• Display disc information.
• Save audio and data tracks to files (.wav, .wma, .ogg, .mp3 and .iso).

Platform - Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Size - 2.56MB
Cost - Free software released under GPL version 2
Website to Download - http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/?page_id=5

Disc Quality Test Utility - Nero CD-DVD Speed 4.7.7.5

"Nero CD-DVD Speed 4.7.7.5" is a program for testing optical drives and media and is part of Nero Toolkit. This is part of the "Nero Burning ROM" but this component is free for download.

The key features include:

• Support for CD, DVD, BD and HD DVD drives/media
• Read/write transfer rate
  
• Create disc/verify function
• Disc quality tests (PI/PO, C1/C2, Jitter)
• TA jitter test
• Scan disc
• Bitsetting
• etc

Platform - Windows
Size - 799K
Website to download - http://www.cdspeed2000.com/download.html