Avast
Antivirus is absolutely necessary to effectively protect themselves against viruses, malware and other online dangers.
This new version of Avast 6 offers a new interface and new features such as the sandbox. It scans files in a neutral space and protected to negate the activation of the virus.
Avast is a flexible and effective anti-virus among the best, at the paid or free anti-virus best as Antivir and AVG.
Avast are nearly three million viruses and malware profiles.
Tip: If you already own a version of Avast uninstall it before installing this new version of the antivirus.
It is advisable to have a single anti-virus.
Configuration: Windows XP, Vista, 7
Size: 54 megs
License: Free for personal, non-commercial use.
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CCleaner
CCleaner is the Swiss Army knife of cleaning your PC. This software eliminates unnecessary files, such as those of the system of your applications. CCleaner cleans internet files by removing cookies, temporary files, browsing history. Ccleaner repairs the registry in order to improve the stability of the operating system. This software also allows you to cleanly uninstall an application, manage modules that load at Windows startup and a bunch of other features. CCleaner allows to accelerate the speed of the computer and free up space on your hard drives. A simply essential software.
Tip: Ccleaner is fully customizable. Select the applications you want to clean, select the cookies you want to keep (those that allow you to log in under a nickname to a social network, a forum or a commercial site).
It is advisable not multiplied registry cleaners. One is enough.
Configuration: Windows XP, Vista, 7
Size: 3.3 mega
License: Free
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Open Office
Open Office is free alternative to Microsoft Office. Open Office is an office suite including a word processor, spreadsheet, drawing program, another assisted presentation and finally a database manager. Brief Open Office software is a complete, versatile and powerful. There are more or less all the proposed features of Microsoft Office. Moreover it is possible to save a text document in Word or a spreadsheet in Excel format.
Tip: Warning Open Office is a heavy software. It weighs 145 megs and takes time to download. It is advisable to reserve its use for office or real personal needs: Mail with formatting for word processing, calculation formula with the spreadsheet. And favor the use of simple software for a text without formatting for instance.
Requirements: Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7
Size: 145 megabytes
License: Free
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Paint.net
Paint.net is an image processing and editing software or a simple and effective design. The interface is intuitive and allows the uninitiated to enjoy advanced features with ease.
Paint.net can manage layers, simply edit the brightness, contrast, color and rendering general a photo or drawing. Paint.net allows to apply effects just like a standard image processing software.
Tip: Paint.net has a very interesting tool sharpness. It is in the Effects menu, choose Photo as Sharpen.
Paint.net needs the .net manager working normally installed on the Microsoft operating system since Windows XP.
For Windows XP precisely, it is advisable to have the Service Pack 3 version of the operating system.
Requirements: XP, Vista, 7
Size: 3.5 mega
License: Free
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Stellarium
Stellarium allows you to view the sky at exactly where you are. Stellarium displays the night sky 3D and day depending on the time at which we are at the four cardinal points. At night, it is then easily possible to identify stars, constellations and planets in the sky.
Stellarium also offers a lot of information: the distance from the earth, the useful position for astronomer.
Tip: Enter your location by accessing the menu. Move your mouse in the bottom left corner. Select Position window. This is the first button.
Stellarium causes an alert in the latest version of Avast. Nevertheless, the software has been tested on dozens of anti-virus, including Avast, without encountering any problems. It is possible that the location technology attracts Avast. Stellarium is an open source project created by the IT developer community. There is absolutely nothing commercial or binding with this software.
Configuration: 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7
Size: 44 megs
License: Free
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Google Earth
Google Earth offers to visualize the Earth in 3 dimensions from a satellite. You can see the entire planet, or explore specific location according to the zoom that gives visualization. We can see his house for example!
Google Earth is a great travel guide. Besides viewing from the air of the place, there is access to small tools which show the places to visit, hotels and restaurants, shops, airports, everything is there. You have access to an image bank views the ground to bring us back to earth.
Tip: Google Earth now integrates with Google Maps. It is possible to calculate the distance and view a route and calculate the distance from satellite version of Google Earth or Google Maps map Version or both!
Google Earth is a relatively heavy application. It is recommended to have a processor and a recent video card.
Configuration: Windows XP, Vista, 7
Size: 14 megabytes (for the initial download)
License: Free
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Picasa
Picasa is an image manager and more particularly an electronic photo album. Picasa from Google.
Picasa album created with your application or when you load on the computer of new photos from your digital camera. Picasa is software to the fluid and easy to understand interface. You can easily manage your albums, consolidate, move photos and rework. Picasa can crop and improve image quality.
The more is its Picasa slideshow that allows you to view photos or images with fluidity and style. The other advantage is its ease of Picasa to share your photos with others.
Picasa allows even recognizing faces in photographs.
Advice :
Timeline Timeline function or can view photos chronologically with fairly spectacular visual effects.
Picasa is an online image album service on the web. Both services, software and website of the same name.
The Picasa photo album site is accessible here
Configuration: Windows XP, Vista, 7
Size: 14 megs
License: Free
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Winamp
Although Winamp appears exceeded in certain sectors like the video where it exceeds VLC, Winamp is always an efficient software for listening to music.
The sound quality is significantly higher than its competitors with its filters and its extensions.
Winamp reads a large number of audio format. In fact Winamp is capable of reproducing sound and music almost all audio file formats.
Winamp lets you listen to radio and watch TV. There is an extension in French proposing major French radio stations.
Winamp is a solid audio library manager.
Winamp is the only media software to create customized visualizations with the sound of music in the form of AVS that you can create, modify and adapt.
Winamp is fully customizable and you can select the graphic theme of its interface.
Advice :
Winamp is interesting when accompanied by an extension to improve the sound. We find some of them here in French.
Requirements: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7
Size: 16 megs
License: Free
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VLC
VLC is a media player. VLC has the advantage of being a lightweight software. The software excels at reading any type of media file, whether audio or video. Indeed VLC uses internal decoders while most competitors are working with external decoders or reading formats extensions.
VLC is an excellent video player. It handles well the subtitles recognizes any type of disk, CD, DVD, Bluray, connects to an Internet or network and can work with audio and video streams as WebTV or online radio.
However, VLC is not a multimedia file manager such as Winamp or Windows Media Player
Advice :
The installer software instead of VLC in a folder called Videolan. It is this word Videolan to look in the Programs folder or in the Start menu.
Requirements: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7
Size: 20 megs
License: Free
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Audacity
Audacity is an audio file editor. This software allows to record sounds and edit music or audio on multiple tracks by applying effects, filters. We can play with the tempo, amplification, sound compression, reverb, echo and a bunch of other features.
Audacity is almost a professional music editing software. Music lovers can still use it simply to remove white before and after a song, to convert an audio file into another format, or to change the sound quality by adjusting the sampling and frequency.
Advice :
Do not forget to check the compression rate of your original MP3 before saving it with Audacity. Select Audacity in the same compression ratio as in the original file.
Requirements: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7
Size: 16 megs
License: Free
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