WinRAR 3.80 Beta 2

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.

Archive file formats supported are ZIP, RAR, ACE, CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, BZ2, UUE, JAR, ISO, 7Z and Z.

.NET Framework Version 1.1

The .NET Framework version 1.1 is a component of the Microsoft Windows® operating system used to build and run Windows-based applications.

This page can help you determine whether or not you have the .NET Framework 1.1 installed already, and how general users and developers can obtain the .NET Framework.

• All Users: Check to See If You Have the .NET Framework 1.1 Installed
• General Users: Install Through Windows Update
• Developers: Download from the Microsoft Download Center
• Order on CD

All Users: Check to See If You Have the .NET Framework Installed

You can check to see if you already have the .NET Framework 1.1 installed by clicking Start on your Windows desktop, selecting Control Panel, and then double-clicking the Add or Remove Programs icon. When that window appears, scroll through the list of applications. If you see Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 listed, the latest version is already installed and you do not need to install it again.

Note: Non-developers need to install the .NET Framework 1.1 to run applications developed using the .NET Framework 1.1.

In most cases, the creator of an application will alert you if you need to install the .NET Framework 1.1 Redistributable to run the application. However, with the number of .NET Framework-connected applications on the market growing rapidly, we encourage you to install the latest version of the .NET Framework 1.1 Redistributable if you haven't already.

General Users: Install Through Windows Update

If you only want to run applications built using the .NET Framework 1.1, download the .NET Framework 1.1 from Microsoft Windows Update.

Developers: Download from the Microsoft Download Center

For developers, the .NET Framework 1.1 makes it easy to rapidly create powerful software that maximizes performance, scalability, opportunities for integration, reliability, security, and the end-user experience, while minimizing the costs of deployment and management.

Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Software Development Kit

The Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Software Development Kit (SDK) includes the .NET Framework 1.1, as well as everything you need to write, build, test, and deploy applications using the .NET Framework 1.1, including documentation, samples, and command-line tools and compilers. If you have already installed Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET, you do not need to install the .NET Framework 1.1 SDK separately; Visual Studio .NET includes the SDK. If you want to distribute the .NET Framework 1.1 with your application, download the .NET Framework 1.1 Redistributable in addition to the SDK.

Get the .NET Framework 1.1 SDK from the Download Center.

The .NET Framework 1.1 SDK runs on:

• Windows Server 2003
• Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2 recommended)
• Windows XP Professional and Home Edition (Windows XP Professional is required to run ASP.NET)

Note: Windows Millennium Edition and Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server are not supported.

PuTTY 0.60 Beta

PuTTY is a free SSH, Telnet and Rlogin client for 32-bit Windows

PuTTY is a very useful tool, a small freeware implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.

SSH, Telnet and Rlogin are three ways of doing the same thing: logging in to a multi-user computer from another computer, over a network.

Multi-user operating systems, such as Unix and VMS, usually present a command-line interface to the user, much like the `Command Prompt' or `MS-DOS Prompt' in Windows. The system prints a prompt, and you type commands which the system will obey.

Using this type of interface, there is no need for you to be sitting at the same machine you are typing commands to. The commands, and responses, can be sent over a network, so you can sit at one computer and give commands to another one, or even to more than one.

SSH, Telnet and Rlogin are _network protocols_ that allow you to do this. On the computer you sit at, you run a _client_, which makes a network connection to the other computer (the _server_). The network connection carries your keystrokes and commands from the client to the server, and carries the server's responses back to you.

These protocols can also be used for other types of keyboard-based interactive session. In particular, there are a lot of bulletin boards, talker systems and MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons) which support access using Telnet. There are even a few that support SSH.

LEGAL WARNING: Use of PuTTY, PSCP, PSFTP and Plink is illegal in countries where encryption is outlawed. I believe it is legal to use PuTTY, PSCP, PSFTP and Plink in England and many other countries, but I am not a lawyer and so if in doubt you should seek legal advice before downloading it. You may find this site useful (it's a survey of cryptography laws in many countries) but I can't vouch for its correctness.

Google Earth

• Google Earth is a free, downloadable application which combines satellite imagery, maps, 3D terrain and 3D buildings to create a highly realistic virtual globe
• Sometimes a simple Google Earth screen shot is all you need to tell a story or make a point
• You can display your custom content as overlays in Google Earth
• You can share your custom content overlays with others, using KML files
• Google Earth supports full 3D viewing including detailed topography and virtual flight tours through your content
• Ideal when a fully-3D world and an immersive, virtual-reality experience are most important
• Best of both worlds: host your custom Google Maps on your website, and allow interested users to view the same content as an overlay in Google Earth
• Get Started using Google Earth!

MEDIA CLASSIC PLAYER

Media Player Classic is an extremely light-weight media player for Windows. It looks just like the good-old Media Player v6.4, but has lots of nice extra features. MPC has, for instance, a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo support (requires QT and/or Real player), and lots more. Definitely a great replacement for the huge and clumsy Microsoft Media Players.

Languages:

English

Media Player Classic supports the following formats:

WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG, SND, AU, AIF, AIFC, AIFF, MIDI, MPEG, MPG, MP2, VOB, AC3, DTS, ASX, M3U, PLS, WAX, ASF, WM, WMA, WMV, AVI, CDA, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, D2V, MP4, SWF, MOV, QT.

OS requirements for Media Player Classic:

• OS: Win2000/XP

REAL player

RealPlayer 11 gives you the ability to download videos from thousands of Web sites with just one click, and now you can even burn them to CD. Watch them whenever and wherever you want. Download Internet videos with one click, build your own video library and playlists, or burn your favorite videos to CD or DVD with RealPlayer. RealPlayer plays all major audio and video formats.

Note: This version of the RealPlayer is recommended for US users only.

Winamp

Winamp is a powerful audio and video player; it is the most famous and popular in its kind. It reproduces almost all audio formats as well as video if you have the set codecs.

With an intuitive and fine graphic interface, this program is the leader in reproduction of multimedia files.

You may modify its appearance with the famous Skins, there are thousands on the net and you may download them freely. So you will always have a new player and you will never get bored.

The formats that can be played are:

NSV, stz, AIFF, KAR, AAC, it, mod, RMI, WMA, AVI, MID, nst, stm, AIF, amf, M2V, WMV, MP3, okt, VLB, APL, itz, MP1, MP2, OGG, ult, m3u, CDA, MIDI, mtm, s3z, xm, far, MIZ, NSA, SND, xmz, 669, mp3, WAV, AU, mdz, MPEG, MPG, s3m, pls, VOC, ASF, M4A, MP4, ptm.

Modifications from 5.3 version

This new version incorporates a new function called “Remote”, this new function may administer this great player from different PCs that have an internet connection.

It counts with a FLAC decoder/encoder which is Nullsoft exclusive; it also reads the CD that you want to visualize.

Last modifications:

- Player skins have been changed.
- It included a new installer for it.
- A new unified editor was added, which includes a support for album covers.
- Modifications in the user’s interface.
- A new system called “"Winamp Remote" was addeded.

Program Data:

Software name
Winamp Full

License type
Freeware

VLC media player

VLC Media Player 0.9.2 VideoLAN.org - 13.81MB (Open Source)

• Description
• Technical
• Change Log

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

• It is a free cross-platform media player
• It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
• It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)

Safari 3.1.2

This Web browser is completely integrated with Mac OS X technologies such as Rendezvous and iSync. It renders pages with a high degree of speed and standards compliance. The interface features an innovative bookmarking system, as well as tabbed browsing and a built-in Google search box with a breadcrumb feature called SnapBack. You can block pop-up ads and instantly use your Internet Explorer favorites as well as any URLs in your Address Book. Version 3.1.2 includes unspecified updates.

WorldWide Telescope

Want to see the same images that scientists at NASA use for their research or perform your own research with those images? Or do you want to see the Earth from the same perspective that astronauts see as they descend to Earth? How about taking a 5 minute break and viewing a panorama of a different city? Install WWT and start your explorations.
The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.

Choose from a growing number of guided tours of the sky by astronomers and educators from some of the most famous observatories and planetariums in the country. Feel free at any time to pause the tour, explore on your own (with multiple information sources for objects at your fingertips), and rejoin the tour where you left off. Join Harvard Astronomer Alyssa Goodman on a journey showing how dust in the Milky Way Galaxy condenses into stars and planets. Take a tour with University of Chicago Cosmologist Mike Gladders two billion years into the past to see a gravitational lens bending the light from galaxies allowing you to see billions more years into the past.

WorldWide Telescope is created with the Microsoft® high performance Visual Experience Engine™ and allows seamless panning and zooming around the night sky, planets, and image environments. View the sky from multiple wavelengths: See the x-ray view of the sky and zoom into bright radiation clouds, and then crossfade into the visible light view and discover the cloud remnants of a supernova explosion from a thousand years ago. Switch to the Hydrogen Alpha view to see the distribution and illumination of massive primordial hydrogen cloud structures lit up by the high energy radiation coming from nearby stars in the Milky Way. These are just two of many different ways to reveal the hidden structures in the universe with the WorldWide Telescope. Seamlessly pan and zoom from aerial views of the Moon and selected planets, as well as see their precise positions in the sky from any location on Earth and any time in the past or future with the Microsoft Visual Experience Engine.

WWT is a single rich application portal that blends terabytes of images, information, and stories from multiple sources over the Internet into a seamless, immersive, rich media experience. Kids of all ages will feel empowered to explore and understand the universe with its simple and powerful user interface.

Microsoft Research is dedicating WorldWide Telescope to the memory of Jim Gray and is releasing WWT as a free resource to the astronomy and education communities with the hope that it will inspire and empower people to explore and understand the universe like never before.

How do you start exploring? Click the top of the Guided Tours tab and then click the Welcome thumbnail to watch a guided tour showing you how to navigate in WWT. Or click a link to read more: WWT in Depth

Google Chrome (BETA) for Windows

Yahoo! Messenger 9.0

AVG Free Edition 8.0.101

Grisoft Inc - 46.80MB (Freeware)AVG Free Edition is the well-known anti-virus protection tool. AVG Free is available free-of-charge to home users for the life of the product!

Avast! Home Edition 4.8.1201

Alwil Software - 21.98MB (Non-Commercial Freeware)Avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users, non-commercial users. Home Edition is free of charge

AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5.1.43

Anti-Virus programs offer insufficient protection against urgently growing threats like Trojans, Worms, Dialers, Hijackers, Spyware and Keyloggers. so go onnnnn

Windows Defender 1.1.1593

Microsoft Corporation - 4.95MB (Freeware)
Microsoft Windows Defender (formally known as Windows data/antispyware) is a security technology that helps protect Windows users from spyware and other antiviruses

Picasa 2.7 Build 37.49

Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all.

GOOGLE EARTH

Google - 7.37MB (Freeware)Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put . It will show the detail map of world and every specified street. so, lets chect it now.

INTERNET DOWNLOAD MANAGER

Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds by up to 5 times, resume and schedule downloads. Comprehensive error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to lost connections, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpected power outages. Simple graphic user interface makes IDM user friendly and easy to use.Internet Download Manager has a smart download logic accelerator that features intelligent dynamic file segmentation and safe multipart downloading technology to accelerate your downloads. Unlike other download managers and accelerators Internet Download Manager segments downloaded files dynamically during download process and reuses available connections without additional connect and login stages to achieve best acceleration performance.
Internet Download Manager supports proxy servers, ftp and http protocols, firewalls, redirects, cookies, authorization, MP3 audio and MPEG video content processing. IDM integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, MSN Explorer, AOL, Opera, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firebird, Avant Browser, MyIE2, and all other popular browsers to automatically handle your downloads. You can also drag and drop files, or use Internet Download Manager from command line. Internet Download Manager can dial your modem at the set time, download the files you want, then hang up or even shut down your computer when it's done. Other features include multilingual support, zip preview, download categories, scheduler pro, sounds on different events, HTTPS support, queue processor, html help and tutorial, enhanced virus protection on download completion, progressive downloading with quotas (useful for connections that use some kind of fair access policy or FAP like Direcway, Direct PC, Hughes, etc.), built-in download accelerator, and many others.
Version 5.14 build 5 adds IDM download panel for web-players that can be used to download flash videos from sites like YouTube, MySpaceTV, and Google Videos. It also features complete Vista support, YouTube grabber, redeveloped scheduler, and MMS protocol support. The new version also adds improved integration for IE and IE based browsers, redesigned and enhanced download engine, the unique advanced integration into all latest browsers, improved toolbar, and a wealth of other improvements and new features.