Software i use :
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/
Acronis True Image 10 Home creates the exact copy of your hard disk and allows you to instantly restore the entire machine including operating system, applications, and all the data.
http://www.admuncher.com/
Blocks advertising, Kills unwanted popups, Removes banners, Speeds up page loading and Filters quickly and reliably.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
http://www.autohotkey.com/
Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write macros by hand or use the macro recorder.
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/
AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting.
http://www.southbaypc.com/AutoSizer/
AutoSizer automatically resizes programs for you, keeping them at a specific size or keeping them maximized.
http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/bbflashback.aspx
BB FlashBack is the screen recorder that creates great movies quickly and easily. Perfect for software demonstrations, screencasting, presentations, tutorials and training.
http://www.popcap.com/gamepopup.php?theGame=bookworm
Link letters and build words in this challenging vocabulary skills game.
http://www.ccleaner.com/
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space.
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
CDBurnerXP Pro is a free CD/DVD burning solution. With this software you can burn CD-R, CD-RW DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW discs.
http://www.copernic.com/
Easily search your entire hard drive in less than a second to pinpoint the right file, email, music or picture.
http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/products/main_1_ENU.html
DVD Playback, Freetyle UI, Smart Utilities, UPnP Connectivity ...
http://www.daemon-tools.cc/
DAEMON Tools is an advanced application for multiprotection emulation.Also included is a Virtual DVDROM drive enabling you to use your CD images as if they were already burned to CD!
http://www.icon-maker.com/
Easy Icon Maker is a small and easy-to-use all-in-one icon utility for icon making, editing, changing, extracting, searching, and exploring.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/EPMon.shtml
Watch the CPU usage percentage in system tray all the time.
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
Registry Backup and Restore for Windows NT,2000,2003,XP and Vista !
http://www.foldermarker.com/
This Windows add-on lets you mark important folders with color-coded or image-coded icons in order to make them easier to spot among hundreds of similar-looking yellow folders.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 1.5 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and amazingly rich feature set.
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
FDM is a full-featured and free download accelerator and manager. Using FDM you can easily download a list of files and whole web sites. FDM can resume broken downloads, can be used in automatic mode and you can also adjust traffic usage !
http://www.gamehouse.com/gamedetails/?game=FeedingFre
It's survival of the biggest in this action packed deep-sea challenge. Eat your way to the top of the food chain as you swim through stunning underwater environments and encounter deadly predators.
http://www.gamehouse.com/gamedetails/?game=cakemania
Help a young baker show big bad business who's boss in this fast-paced treat.
http://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/index.htm
A fast and easy-to-use calculator that allows to compute message digests, checksums and HMACs for files, as well as for text and hex strings.
http://www.clickteam.com/eng/installcreator.php
Everything in one compressed distributable executable file, Full-featured dialog box editor to customize your installer's screen, Every text is customizable, Creates icons and folder in Window's start menu, Automatic installation of Fonts,ActiveX ...
http://www.irfanview.com/
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative freeware graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT,2000,XP,2003 and Vista.
http://www.structurise.com/kleptomania/
Kleptomania lets you select text anywhere on the screen, including areas that you cannot highlight with your mouse, such as columns of data from a word processor or error messages from any Windows program.
http://www.launchy.net/
Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!
http://www.panicware.com/product_mousearound.html
MouseAround produces a variety of user selectable cursor trails that directly interact with your mouse cursor to produce a wide variety of exciting effects!
http://www.getfirebug.com/
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
Enjoy safe, fast, and easy email, with intelligent spam filters, quick message search, and customizable views.
http://www.oo-software.com/home/en/products/oodefrag
O&O Defrag V8.6 is the newest generation of the very successful O&O Defrag. Simply, quickly, and securely, you can get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments - and all this with only a tiny investment of time and energy!
http://www.opera.com/
Opera is a powerful tool that gives you more options when surfing the Web. It is faster, safer and easier to use than any browser. Whether you want to have more fun, get more done or express your style - Opera is the best.
http://www.smorgasbordet.com/pellesc/
Pelles C for Windows is a complete development kit for Windows and Pocket PC. It contains among other things an optimizing C compiler, a linker, a resource compiler, a message compiler, a make utility and install builders for both Windows and Pocket
http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php
PHP Designer - Professional is a powerful PHP Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for both beginners and professional developers that enhance the process of editing, debugging, analyzing and publishing applications and websites powered by PHP an
http://picasa.google.com/
Picasa helps you: Locate and organise all the photos on your computer, Edit and add effects to your photos with a few simple clicks, Share your photos with others through email, prints and on the web: it’s fast, easy and free !
http://www.punksoftware.com/rocketdock
RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch fro
http://www.shortkeys.com/
ShortKeys is a utility that allows you to set up replacement text or paragraphs for any given number of user defined keystrokes. ShortKeys monitors the keyboard activity on a global nature and anytime a user defined keystroke combination is typed in,
http://www.northglide.com/sideslide.html
SideSlide is an advanced, unobtrusive, dockable, skinnable, keyboard accessible, highly configurable Desktop Extension on Steroids! SideSlide will help you to finally clean desktop clutter and will make your computer friendlier and faster than ever b
http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/
SlickRun is a free floating command line utility for Windows. SlickRun gives you almost instant access to any program or website.
http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/
Slim Browser is a tabbed multiple-site browser. It incorporates a large collection of powerful features like built-in popup killer, skinned window frame, form filler, site group, quick-search, auto login, hidden sites, built-in commands and scripting
http://www.songbirdnest.com/
Songbird™ is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox®, it is built from Mozilla®, cross-platform and open source.
http://www.ntwind.com/software/taskswitchxp.html
TaskSwitchXP is an advanced task management utility that picks up where the standard Windows Alt+Tab switcher leaves off. It provides the same functionality, and adds visual styles to the dialog and also enhances it by displaying thumbnail preview of
http://www.truecrypt.org/
Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk, Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a storage device such as USB flash drive, Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent and much more...
http://www.carthagosoft.net/twistpad/
Twistpad is a fully featured Text Editor for Windows. Twistpad can be used as a simple notepad replacer, or an featured packed editor targeting web and software developers.
http://www.vbsedit.com/
The award-winning VBScript editor that dramatically reduces the time you spend writing .VBS scripts
http://boozet.xepher.net/viscd/index.htm
Visual CD is a disk cataloging tool to index CD/DVDs, floppy disks, hard disks, and even folders. You can then explore the disk catalogs, search files and folders, create MP3 playlist file without having the physical disks in the drive. Upon insertio
http://www.visualtasktips.com/
Visual Task Tips is a FREE and lightweight shell enhancement utility. It provides thumbnail preview image for each task in the Windows Taskbar, as seen in the upcoming Microsoft Windows Vista.
http://www.winamp.com/
Popular digital jukebox software for Windows that supports a huge variety of audio and video formats. It also includes thousands of Internet radio and video streams.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/WinKey.shtml
This shell extension allows you to define keyboard shortcuts with the Windows key. You can use almost any key combination and create shortcuts to system folders such as My Computer, Network Neighborhood, Dial-Up Networking, Control Panel, and Recycle
http://winmerge.org/
WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.
http://www.rarlab.com/
WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.
http://www.windows-spy.com/
Winspector is a Windows application that allows you to look at the messages being sent in the system. When developing your own applications you can see the messages and you can inspect them, but you can't do the same with other running applications.
http://zabkat.com/
xplorer² is a file and information manager that adheres to the philosophy "efficiency through simplicity". Without reinventing the wheel, it integrates the best features of Windows' shell architecture in a small, resource efficient package that's in
http://www.zdsoft.com/screen-recorder/
ZD Soft Screen Recorder records screen activities to replayable video file. It uses unique screen recording technology to gain the best recording performance. It outputs lossless screen video in extremely small file size.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/autoruns.mspx
This utility shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/dll_export_viewer.html
This utility displays the list of all exported functions and their virtual memory addresses for the specified DLL files.
http://www.fusionmedia.org/
fusion is the smallest free fully-featured media player available! It is based on DirectShow© and features all the latest audio and video formats, if the appropriate codecs have been installed.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx
Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processmonitor.mspx
Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Registry-Tweak/RegPad.shtml
RegPad is a free and useful gui based .reg file editor and viewer.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/regscanner.html
RegScanner is a small utility that allows you to scan the Registry, find the desired Registry values that match to the specified search criteria, and display them in one list. After finding the Registry values, you can easily jump to the right value
http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/
Resource HackerTM is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res).
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
The ShellExView utility displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer, and allows you to easily disable and enable each shell extension.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/sysexp.html
SysExporter utility allows you to grab the data stored in standard list-views, tree-views, list boxes, combo boxes, text-boxes, and WebBrowser/HTML controls from almost any application running on your system, and export it to text, HTML or XML file.
http://www.codeproject.com/tools/ToDoList2.asp
A simple but effective way to keep on top of your tasks.
http://www.ampsoft.net/utilities/WinOFF.php
This is an utility designed to shut down Windows computers automatically, with several working ways and fully configurable.
Opera 9.5
http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Opera_9.5_Beta_Other_Known_Issues
Unofficial known issues list for 9.5
http://ayush.110mb.com/scripts/check-builds/
Checks if specified builds exist on snapshot.opera.com.
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zoquete
2008-07-07 15:00:08Where was you so long? I did not see you 1 year :(
zoquete
2008-07-07 14:59:43Hi ayush, Friend, how are you?
gprasannah
2008-02-05 11:34:31Hi Ayush! Thanks for the Orkut toolbar. Can you make it for the scrapbook too? http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=2464&tid=2579280077056511988
unitechy
2008-01-13 12:31:52thanku
AyushJ
2007-12-31 08:18:27Thanks :)
h3rald
2007-12-30 09:53:42Nice Blog! Thanks for reading my Opera review on h3rald.com, btw!