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 [...]

Earlier today Microsoft released the second public beta for Internet Explorer 8. This new beta (2) is packed with new features, such as: Accelerators (formerly known as Activities) allow users to perform some tasks with a simple righ click context menu item. Select text on any page and select an accelerator, for example select text and click [...]

By now you have probably heard that Windows Live wave 3 is comming soon. A new Windows Live Wave means that everything in the Windows Live suite/service is updated. Microsoft has a hidden page up, and LiveSide has found some of the new features: Speed: The coming soon page says that for broadband users, the new Hotmail [...]

Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni [...]

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). [...]

Rainlendar is a customizable calendar that displays the current month, events, and reminders. It is a very lightweight application that doesn´t use much system resources or take much space on your desktop. Features: Small and lightweight Different type events can have different appearence Supports Windows transparency Synchronizes events between several clients Localized for multiple languages Shows an alarm when an event is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s been some time since we last heard anything about the New Windows Live Messenger 9, but now it seems that another beta version has leaked to the internet. In this new build there are quite a lot of visual changes, the contact list and conversation windows have had a good makeover for the better. Two other [...]

Microsoft’s Live Labs Photosynth is an application that lets you transform regular digital photos into a three-dimensional, 360-degree experience. Anybody who sees your synth is put right in your shoes, sharing in your experience, with detail, clarity and scope impossible to achieve in conventional photos or videos. Synths constitute an entirely new visual medium. Photosynth analyzes [...]