Tuesday, May 31, 2005

31st may

CNET's Exclusive Downloads

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MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search 2.01
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Paltalk 8.0
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WinProxy 6.0 R1a
Connect your office or home to the Internet while keeping your network secure.

Picks of the Week

In Internet

Google Toolbar 3.0.123.2
License: Free
File size: 683.66K
Minimum requirements: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP, Internet Explorer 5.5+
Rating: 5 out of 5 Read the full review.

The little search engine that could adds a spelling checker, new mapping features, and a word translator to the latest version of its popular toolbar.

In Design & Photo

ProShow Gold 2.5 build 1635
License: Free to try; $69.95 to buy
File size: 11.41MB
Minimum requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Rating: 4 out of 5 Read the full review.

Do more with your slide shows than cycle through a set of still images. Pan across, zoom into or out of, and rotate images while the slide show is playing, or experiment with more than 280 transition effects.

In Audio & Video

iPodder 2.0.3
License: Free
File size: 6.21MB
Minimum requirements: Windows 2000/XP
Rating: 5 out of 5 Read the full review.

It's time to turn off your radio and dive into the free-form world of podcasting with this slick podcast receiver that offers a robust directory, a scheduler, and a handy cleanup tool.

In Games

The Ur-Quan Masters 0.4
License: Free
File size: 1.03MB
Minimum requirements: Windows (all)
Rating: 5 out of 5 Read the full review.

Spin the board like a turntable to move colored balls into the right positions. Powerful magnets, black holes, and smashable crystals are your first obstacles in this unique puzzler.

SuperVideoCap

MP3Resizer: Optimize your MP3s for your portable device.

Unless you have an iPod or other portable player with 15GB of storage, music file
sizes can be a concern. MP3Resizer helps you convert all those large MP3s you have
to smaller ones by lowering the bit rate. Granted, the sound quality of these files
won't be as good as the larger ones, but this utility gives you the opportunity to
balance size and quality. Registration is $19.95.

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FaxTalk FaxCenter Pro: Manage your faxes from your PC.

FaxTalk FaxCenter Pro eliminates the need for a standalone fax machine. From a single
application you can send, receive, view and print faxes, organize fax documents,
create and manage contacts and phonebooks, and control all fax operations. Registration
is $59.95.

http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1793-13-59-88631-197621-0-0-0-1

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SuperVideoCap: Capture video from your camcorder, webcam, TV tuner card-you name it.

SuperVideoCap lets you capture video from almost any video source and save it as
an AVI (or compressed AVI, depending on your installed codecs). It supports real-time
video preview, broadcasting live audio and video, and the ability to overlay text and
timestamps. Registration is $24.95.

http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1793-13-59-88631-197624-0-0-0-1

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NetInfo: Try a full-featured network toolkit.

NetInfo is a collection of 15 different network tools in one single program. It features
standard tools like ping and trace, but also comes with unique tools to allow you to
display the HTML header code from Web pages, verify e-mail addresses, list available network
services for a host, and more. Registration is $29.95.

http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1793-13-59-88631-197627-0-0-0-1

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PC Magazine's ClipTrak: Record your clipboard copies with this organizer.

ClipTrak saves the text you copy to the Microsoft Windows clipboard, and gives you easy
access to it for later use. It maintains two lists. The Cache contains the most recent
clips that you've copied to the clipboard. The Saved list contains only those clips you've
selected from the Cache for saving. Both the Cache and Saved clips can be edited, and you
can access clips from a tray menu or a hotkey-generated pop-up menu to copy back into the
clipboard for pasting into a document. Subscribers to the PC Magazine Utility Library can
download the software for free.

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Saturday, May 28, 2005

28th may


This Week's New Releases
Title Date Added
Window Washer 6.0
Scrubbing even harder to keep your PC clean, this latest version adds Mozilla and Firefox support.
License: Free to try; $29.95 to buy
May 24, 2005
Ulead Photo Explorer 8.5
New features include windows for quick access to popular features, automatic camera detection, and an improved photo-album-creation process.
License: Free to try; $29.95 to buy
May 25, 2005
CCProxy 6.2
Enhancements and bug fixes improve the overall usability of this Internet-sharing software.
License: Free to try; $69 to buy
May 26, 2005
ml_iPod (Winamp iPod Plugin) 1.2
Transfer songs to and from your iPod via Winamp with this free plug-in.
License: Free
May 24, 2005

This Week's Top Movers
Here are some of the fastest-rising downloads on our Most Popular list:

Top Movers The Rundown
1. Warez P2P Faster than a speeding file transfer, this P2P app posts a gain of five spots to No. 7.
2. IrfanView Another week, another gain. This time, the tidy image editor picks up four spots to land at No. 23.
3. Ares Fileshare Swooping in from another galaxy, this new-school P2P app enters the top 50 at No. 32.
4. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Trailer: The trailer for George Lucas's final installment in the Star Wars prequel trilogy makes an impressive debut in the top 50 at No. 34.
5. RoboForm Remembering passwords and autofilling Web forms boosts this handy utility nine spots to No. 37.

Want more? See our top 50 downloads.
This Week's Top Movers
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MyWebEx PC
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This Week's Top Ten Downloads
Warez P2P reenters the top 10 with a big jump to the No. 7 position. Newcomer BitComet rounds out this week's list as it sneaks into the bottom spot.

Most Popular Titles
Week ending May 29
Last
Week
Weeks
on Chart
Downloads
This Week
1. Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition 1 131 1,226,497
2. LimeWire 2 96 1,217,648
3. ICQ 5 3 137 635,215
4. Spybot - Search & Destroy 4 117 564,938
5. WinZip 5 449 441,339
6. iMesh 6 265 370,429
7. Warez P2P 13 70 256,369
8. Morpheus 7 212 251,289
9. DivX Player 8 188 215,304
10. BitComet 12 47 210,405
Focus On
Memorial Day screensavers
Here are the most popular Memorial Day screensavers for the week of May 23:

Title Total Downloads
1. Real US Flag Screensaver 1.0
Wave the stars and stripes with this beautifully rendered 3D screensaver.
License: Free
69
2. 3D All American Baby 1.0
Watch this baby celebrate her patriotic pride as she dances among red, white, and blue pacifiers and bottles.
License: Free to try; $10 to buy
35
3. Civil War Screensaver 2.5
This highly customizable screensaver lets you set the time between transitions and create a desktop pattern from its images.
License: Free to try; $12.95 to buy
19
4. Awesome Navy Aircraft Screen Saver Lite 1.0
For aircraft aficionados, this military screensaver displays images of Navy planes and features stunning transition effects, a black-and-white mode, and password protection.
License: Free to try; $9.95 to buy
14
5. WW2 Warbirds 1.1
Cycling through 31 images of WW2-era aircrafts, this screensaver features a MIDI-based soundtrack and your choice of up to 23 transition effects.
License: Free to try; $10 to buy
12