Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool


Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool is an utility designed to remove all types of infections from your computer. Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool implies effective algorithms of detection used by Kaspersky Anti-Virus and AVZ Antiviral Toolkit.

Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool is not capable for real-time protection of your computer. As soon as your computer is cleaned you are supposed to remove the tool and install a full version of antivirus software.

Free RM to MP3 Converter


Free RM to MP3 Converter can convert Real Media files to MP3 files which can be played in MP3 Players. All Real Media formats (*.rm, *.ra, *.rmvb) are supported.

Key Features:

- It's clean and free, without any adware or spyware.
- It's stable and fast.
- Easy-to-use wizard-like user interface helps you setup converting process easily.
- It uses up-to-date and high quality libraries.
- ID3 Tag can be derived from the input files automatically.
- Batch Processing is supported, it can process an unlimited number of files at one time.
- Detailed HTML help file is included.
- The installing and uninstalling process is very easy.


JetPhoto Studio


JetPhoto Studio is a feature-rich digital photo organizing and Web publishing software. It's an easy-to-use tool to efficiently organize photos with time, location and keyword tags on your PC. A photo calendar, an EXIF reader and a GPS-driven photo locator (GeoTagging) are provided in JetPhoto. This software can generate beautiful Flash album movies and wallpaper with collages, or make and share pocketsize photos with cell phones. With JetPhoto, it's so easy to fix, crop, resize photos or add watermarks in batches. For Web sharing, JetPhoto Studio can work with Flickr or JetPhoto Server to complete publishing photo albums to Web. Edit tags and descriptions on PC, and post all organized pictures to Flickr just by one-click. With JetPhoto Server, you can establish and customize your own standalone photo Website.


Primitive Photo Resizer


Primitive Photo Resizer is an easy-to-use tool. Once you start using it, you will no longer have any questions how to quickly resize one photo without starting huge image editors and other complex and slow software to solve this simple problem. All you have to do is load a photo in Primitive Photo Resizer, resize the window and save the result. And that is all! People who have only basic skills in using computers will find this program especially useful, even a child can handle it.
It supports only the most popular image formats: JPEG, GIF and BMP.

The program is absolutely free and does not require installation.

Free Picture Resize Starter


Download This free picture resize software tool to learn to batch convert, resize optimize images photos and jpegs. Best Choice; Wizard Driven batch resizer optimizer resizer converter. Right Away share your photos with Free Picture Resize Starter software, freeware tool with a photoshop like interface. Convert Resize Optimize Share photos, makes it easier than ever to batch resize, optimize, convert, and share your photo image memories. All the tools you need in this free software package and share your photos with virtually anyone. Best of all it is completely free! Download Now and start resizing photos with this free software tool.

Monday, April 27, 2009

SE-Explorer - Free portable file manager


Replace standard Windows Explorer with SE-Explorer - simple and powerful dual panel
file manager with tabbed interface and lots of build-in viewers.

Main Features:

- Clear tabbed interface
- Different file browsers: dual panel, classic windows explorer, command prompt
- Enhanced file search function and embedded size scanner
- Media player for audio, video and flash files: MP3, WAV, AVI, MPEG, WMV, SWF, MOV, etc.
- Picture viewer which supports most popular image file formats
- Archive explorer for ZIP, RAR, ISO, 7Z, MSI, CAB, etc.
- Resource view for executable files and icon libraries
- PDF, DjVu, Html Help and RTF document view
- Text viewer with syntax highlighting
- Text file compare (difference)
- Hex viewer for binary files
- Web Browser for web and email files
- TTF Font files view
- XML structure view


Thursday, April 23, 2009

Calculator++


Calculator++ is a cross-platform, arbitrary-precision, customizable, multifunction, scientific calculator. Using Calculator++, you can perform any of the customary handheld or online calculator operations, and many more. While it serves as an excellent replacement for your operating system's built-in calculator, it also offers many powerful features that are not available together in any other handheld or computer-based calculator. Calculator++ supports over 25,000 units for conversion in an ever growing list of categories and units. Scientists, engineers, programmers, and students will find it a simple to use, yet powerful, tool.

Requirement:
- Java Runtime Environment 6.0 or later


Password Safe

Password Safe is a password database utility. Users can keep their passwords securely encrypted on their computers. A single Safe Combination unlocks them all..

SpeedFan 4.38


SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too. SpeedFan can even change the FSB on some hardware (but this should be considered a bonus feature). SpeedFan can access digital temperature sensors and can change fan speeds accordingly, thus reducing noise. SpeedFan can find almost any hardware monitor chip connected to the 2-wire SMBus (System Management
Bus (trademark belonging to SMIF, Inc.), a subset of the I2C protocol) and works fine with Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Windows Vista. It works with Windows 64 bit too.

Feedreader


Feedreader is the most robust, highly-functional personal aggregation solution on the market today. It dynamically reads, collects, and organizes syndicated Web content, and seamlessly delivers it directly to user desktops. With Feedreader, you have instant, convenient access to the up-to-the-minute news you need, without information overload.

Feedreader automatically downloads updates from your favorite Web sites. So, it eliminates the need for you to constantly monitor multiple Web pages, while allowing you to immediately identify and retrieve new articles – no matter how long you’ve been away from your desk.

Feedreader provides cutting-edge features in an intuitive, user-friendly environment. Even non-technical users can view comprehensive, consolidated information from across the Internet – faster and easier than ever before.

PowerPad


PowerPad is a lightweight text editor with a few extra features such as a toolbar, auto-indent, and the capability of loading files larger than 64 KB.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Youtube Video Downloader 1.50


Youtube Video Downloader will let you download videos from Youtube.com or any website with videos using .flv format.

Youtube Video Downloader is really easy to use. You just have to install it, surf the web, and when you find the video you want to download, copy & paste the link in the New Download URL textbox and it will be saved in your hard disk.

Mozilla Firefox Portable edition


Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured browser for Windows that makes browsing more efficient than ever before. Firefox includes pop-up blocking; a tab-browsing mode that lets you open several pages in a single window; integrated Google searching; simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively; a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser; and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online.

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool


The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks computers running Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 for infections by specific, prevalent malicious software including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoogm and helps remove any infection found. When the detection and removal process is complete, the tool displays a report describing the outcome, including which, if any, malicious software was detected and removed.

CleanMem v.1.4.1

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The CleanMem application is designed to be a very simple to operate as it will run and clean the memory out of all processes it can, without any user input.

This free program will install and set it to run every 30 min via the windows task scheduler. Install it and your done! The program doesn’t run in the back ground, once it does its job it closes and doesn’t run again until the task scheduler runs it

DivX for Windows 7.1.0.2


Free your media and enjoy advanced interactive features with DivX for Windows. DivX for Windows includes the DivX Codec, the DivX Player, the DivX Web Player and the Stage6 Content Uploader Utility as well as 15-day trials of the DivX Converter and the DivX Pro Codec. All components are free and no adware is included in the package.

YouTube Player for Windows 0.677


A WPF-based mini YouTube client app for Windows which brings video content from YouTube data servers right to your desktop.


System Requirements:

- .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
- Adobe Flash Player

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Free Launch Bar


Free Launch Bar is a Free replacement for the standard Quick Launch bar. All functions presented in Quick Launch are also in Free Launch Bar. However, the Free Launch Bar is fully compatible with Quick Launch because it uses the same folder for shortcuts. But there is one huge difference. Free Launch Bar allows you to combine your shortcuts into groups. This feature looks like popup menus. This vastly improves the management of your shortcuts and save working space on your desktop. By using Free Launch Bar, you speed up the launching of your applications like never before.

K-Lite Codec Pack 4.7.5


K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codecs are required to encode and/or decode (play) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all the movies that you download from the internet.

The K-Lite Codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs:
- It it always up-to-date with the latest versions of the codecs.
- It is very user-friendly and the installation is fully customizable, meaning that you can install only those components that you really want.
- It has been very well tested, so that the package doesn't contain any conflicting codecs.
- It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies.

There are three versions of the K-Lite Codec Pack: Basic, Standard and Full.
• K-Lite Codec Pack Basic contains only the most essential things. It contains everything you need to be able to play the most popular and widespread formats. It is small enough to fit on a single floppy. Also great for including on your movie CDs.
• K-Lite Codec Pack Standard contains everything you need to play all the commonly used formats. This package should be enough for the average user.
• K-Lite Codec Pack Full contains even more codecs. It also has encoding support for the various formats. This package is for power users and people who do their own encodings.

Eudora - Email Client


Eudora is the best email program for people who get lots of email. If you're not one of those people now, you will be soon. So, take control of your email before it takes control of you. Eudora is more than a way to send and receive messages - it's a powerful email management tool with features to increase your productivity and enhance your communications.

ScamWatch combats "phishing" schemes that use disguised URL's to gather personal information. Eudora now detects if the URL in the link differs suspiciously from the host name and warns you to exercise caution before making the connection.

Version 8 of is now open source and based on Thunderbird. The Penelope project's intention is to join the Eudora® user experience with the Mozilla platform. We intend to produce a version of Eudora that is open source and based on Mozilla and Thunderbird. It's *not* our intention to compete with Thunderbird; rather, we want to complement it.

We are committed to both preserving the Eudora user experience and to maintaining maximum compatibility, for both developers and users, with Thunderbird. It is our goal to build a single development community around Thunderbird and Eudora, so that both mailers advance faster than they previously have.

SpywareBlaster


Spyware, adware, browser hijackers, and dialers are some of the fastest-growing threats on the Internet today. By simply browsing to a web page, you could find your computer to be the brand-new host of one of these unwanted fiends!

The most important step you can take is to secure your system. And SpywareBlaster is the most powerful protection program available.

- Prevent the installation of ActiveX-based spyware, adware, browser hijackers, dialers, and other potentially unwanted software.
- Block spyware/tracking cookies in Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Firefox.
- Restrict the actions of potentially unwanted sites in Internet Explorer.

SpywareBlaster can help keep your system spyware-free and secure, without interfering with the "good side" of the web. And unlike other programs, SpywareBlaster does not have to remain running in the background.

Picasa

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 your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized.

Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures, you can email, print photos home, make gift CDs, instantly share via Hello, and even post pictures on your own blog.

Avant Browser


Avant Browser is a standalone application designed to expand features provided by Internet Explorer.

It adds a bunch of features and functionalities to IE and its user-friendly interface brings a new level of clarity and efficiency to your browsing experience, and frequent upgrades have steadily improved its reliability.

- Flash Animation Filter
- Built-in AD/Pop-up Blocker
- Built-in RSS/ATOM Reader.
- Additional Mouse Functions
- Multi-Window Browsing
- Real Full Screen Mode and Alternative Full Desktop mode
- Built-in Search Engine
- Full IE Compatibility
- Control Your Privacy
- No security holes
- Safe Recovery
- Skins
- Available in 41 languages

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Folder Size for Windows 2.4


Folder Size for Windows adds a new column to the Details view in Windows Explorer. The new column shows not only the size of files, but also the size of folders. It keeps track of which folders you view, and scans them in the background so you can see complete size of all files within the folder. It's very useful for cleaning up your disk. Once you get used to having that information available, a directory listing simply looks incomplete without it!

Free Disk Usage Analyzer

Free Disk Usage Analyzer is a free hard drive analysis tool that reveals those files and folders on your drive(s) that are occupying the most disk space. It displays ranked lists of both your top space-hogging files and folders.

It is designed to display a summary of your disk’s occupancy or otherwise a ranked list of the largest files or the largest folders.

PDF Split and Merge 2.0


PDF Split and Merge 2.0 is a powerful free PDF editing program that can split, merge, and extract PDF documents. It employs a visual editing interface that allows users to drag and drop thumbnails of pages to arrange or combine them, and to edit pages (rotate, delete, etc) by right clicking on them.

PDF to Word Free


PDF to Word Free is a free web service that offers high-quality conversions of PDF files to DOC or RTF formats that can be used in Microsoft word or other Rich Text Editors. It lets you upload PDF files through a web interface and will then send the converted file via email as an attachment.

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TweakNow RegCleaner


The Registry is a heart and soul of any Windows system. It contains information that controls how your Windows appears and how it behaves. Most applications today use registry to store configuration and other important data. When you install an application, a new registry entries will be created. These entries will automatically be deleted when you uninstall the application. Unfortunately, it does not always work that way. Sometimes, you will find that some applications fail to remove their own registry entries. These entries will become obsolete.

After a long period, after installing and uninstalling a lot number of applications, your Windows registry will contain a large number of obsolete entries. These will significantly increase the registry size and thus will slowdown your computer, because Windows will need more time to load, search, and read data from registry.

To keep your computer in top performance, it is recommended to periodically clean your Windows registry.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Game Booster


Designed to help optimize your PC for smoother, more responsive game play in the latest PC games with the touch of a button, Game Booster helps achieve the performance edge previously only available to highly technical enthusiasts. It works by temporarily shutting down background processes, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor performance. That means you can keep all the features of Windows Vista and Windows XP ready for when you need them, but turn them off when you are ready to get down to serious business – gaming. Game Booster makes it simpler to enjoy the latest games and take your experience to a new level. All systems go!

Video Thumbnails Maker


Video Thumbnails Maker will enable you to create thumbnails (previews, caps,) of your video files.

The utility can be used for home-video cataloging and for network video sharing support.

Here are some key features of "Video Thumbnails Maker":

· Supports of the batch processing of videofiles.
· Supports of practically any videos-formats (even MOV, QT, FLV, SWF, RM if you have appropriate codecs). If the file can be normally played in your video-player (Windows Media Player or other one), it can be processed by the program.
· You can pause/continue or stop active job at any moment.
· Possibility to save each shot in separate file.
· Import and export options presets.
· Options preset file format (*.vtm). After you run the preset, the program is automatically opened with the imported tuning. Very useful.
· 5 interface languages (English, Belarusian, Russian, Ukranian, German).
· 5 customizable "base"-presets.
· Statistics of the progress of the program (F1 window).
· Watermarks (alpha-channels and transparency are supported). Make your own style.
· Ability to use your images as background images for preview.
· Autoadjustment of height of a shot option.
· Global stroke and stroke tiles options.
· Fit screen option (autoadjustment of the shots to fit your screen resolution).
· Special effects (drop shadow, gray scale, cut edges).
· Customizable fonts, colors, contours, shadows, frames, background, text.
· Stamp time in shots option (5 different locations, transparency, contour).
· Video information stamp option (4 different locations and customizable configurations).
· Audio/Video info" option.
· Custom comment" option.
· Two rendering engines (Engine 2 is recommended to be used under 64-bit OS).
· Try to substitute black frames" option.
· The program's small size.
· Hot keys.

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 must be installed to run this software

Friday, April 10, 2009

Ken Rename


Ken Rename is a free multi-file rename utility for windows.

Features:
- Filter files with wildcard
- Use multi-actions to rename and can change order
- Create a numbered file list
- Convert to upper or lowercase
- Replace a string with a different string
- Use regular expression with Replace
- Keep only certain letters of the file name
- Remove a string between 2 string or before or after a string
- Can undo rename
- Unicode support
- Convert of code page
- ID3v1 ID3v2 support
- EXIF support
- Set File Attribute
- Multi-Language support
- Select directory in file explorer with context menu
- Preview rename results are shown immediately
- Export and import rename file list
- Save actions as preset
- Picture preview
- Custom keyboard shortcuts
- VBScript support

WinPatrol


WinPatrol monitors and exposes adware, keyloggers, spyware, worms, cookies, and other malicious software. This program puts you back in control of your computer with no need for constant updates. WinPatrol's goal is to help you better understand what programs are running on your computer and to alert you to any new programs added without your permission. Unlike traditional security programs, WinPatrol doesn't scan your hard drive searching for previously identified threats. Instead, it uses a heuristic behavioral approach, taking a snapshot of your critical system resources, then alerting you to any changes that occur without your knowledge.

PDFCreator


PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.

Key Features:

- Create PDFs from any program that is able to print
- Security: Encrypt PDFs and protect them from being opened, printed etc.
- Send generated files via eMail
- Create more than just PDFs: PNG, JPG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS
- AutoSave files to folders and filenames based on Tags like Username,
Computername, Date, Time etc.
- Merge multiple files into one PDF
- Easy Install: Just say what you want and everything is installed
- Terminal Server: PDFCreator also runs on Terminal Servers without problems
- And the best: PDFCreator is free, even for commercial use! It is Open Source
and released under the Terms of the GNU General Public License.

IECacheView


IECacheView is a small utility that reads the cache folder of Internet Explorer, and displays the list of all files currently stored in the cache. For each cache file, the following information is displayed: Filename, Content Type, URL, Last Accessed Time, Last Modified Time, Expiration Time, Number Of Hits, File Size, Folder Name, and full path of the cache filename. You can easily save the cache information into text/html/xml file, or copy the cache table to the clipboard and then paste it to another application, like Excel or OpenOffice Spreadsheet.

IECacheView can also be run under various command line options. To see the detailed info, please visit nrisoft.net

FreeMeter



FreeMeter is a simple, friendly network monitoring and diagnosis tool. Its primary function is to display graphically how much data you are transferring over the network interfaces in your computer.

It is also a handy tool for tasks such as copying broken URL's to your browser, pinging and tracing other computers, but also enables you to watch for new email.

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Elisa Media Center


Elisa is an open source cross-platform media center connecting the Internet to an all-in-one media player.

This application includes advanced features that will make your media center experience unique. It features an intuitive interface with a professional look and feel which can be easily used with a standard TV remote control.

Key features :

Movies: Watch your own movies and video clips as well as those found online.

Music: Manage your music collection by artists or album covers.

Peripheral Devices: Automatically detects iPods, cameras, hard drives, etc.

Pictures: Watch your pictures with previews and nicely animated slideshows.

Fully Networked: Elisa automatically finds media from other computers on your local network.

Internet: Everything from Flickr to Youtube and other popular internet services.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Foto2Avi


Foto2Avi is a freeware video/photo converter to avi/mpeg/flv video formats and an video editor too.
It has special effects like ...

- Transitions (Flip page,Swirl...)
- Basic Effects (Brightness/Noise/Fade in/Fade out)
- Advanced Effects (Distort, Ripple)
- Animations
- Subtitles
- Logos

Foto2avi can trim audio video streams with millisecond precision. So you can edit your sounds synchronize them with your videos. You can save your work in *.f2a project files so you cannot lose your work and reload them later.

µTorrent - Peer-to-Peer file sharer


µTorrent is the world's most popular BitTorrent client. Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange.

Windows Essentials Codec Pack

Windows Essentials Codec Pack, is one of the most comprehensive collection of Media Codecs, Filters, Splitters and other tools that will enable you to play 99% of all the movies, music and flash files you download off the internet. It also includes a set of powerful filters that can enhance the video quality as well as audio quality and it comes complete with an automatic update service that will keep your computer up-to-date with the latest software upgrades as soon as they become available.

Comodo System Cleaner

Comodo System Cleaner is a powerful suite of utilities and tools that allows you to make your Windows XP or Vista computer faster, more efficient and more secure.
  • Take control by customizing virtually every aspect of Windows XP or Vista behavior with just a few mouse clicks
  • Optimize system performance, disk space and overall stability with built in Registry Cleaner and Disk Cleaner tools
  • Gain complete visibility and control over your computer's hardware, software, processes and performance with powerful diagnostics tools
  • Ensure complete on-line and off-line privacy by clearing the history, cache and temp files of Internet browsers, Instant Messengers and Windows applications
  • 100% Safe Cleaning - Unique 'Registry Protection' and 'Safe Delete' features automatically roll back your system if important files were deleted in error

Available in 32 bit and 64 bit versions for XP and Vista and Windows 2003 server. Comodo System Cleaner is 100% free to home and business users.

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ChromeCacheView


ChromeCacheView is a small utility that reads the cache folder of Google Chrome Web browser, and displays the list of all files currently stored in the cache. For each cache file, the following information is displayed: URL, Content type, File size, Last accessed time, Expiration time, Server name, Server response, and more.
You can easily select one or more items from the cache list, and then extract the files to another folder, or copy the URLs list to the clipboard.

Note: The cache folder of Google Chrome is located under
"%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache"

SyMenu


SyMenu is an USB application menu.

You can customize SyMenu in a simple and quick way adding links to portable programs, files, Windows commands, folders and urls.

Linked items (SyItems) have to reside on the same USB stick or disk even if Symenu supports links to absolute path (such as C:\Windows\Explorer.exe).

SyMenu supports every portable program but you can try to install inside your USB device even programs that don't need to access to registry or file system folders outside the program's root (for example to check a serial key registry hive or a licence file).

SyMenu even allows to access every single program configured in Windows Start Menu.

DecimalTo..?Convertor


DecimalTo..Converter is a simple tool to convert decimal numbers to any number system. It is a lightweight software application that can help you convert decimal numbers into Binary, Octal or Hexadecimal. It is coded in Java and uses the standard Java GUI user interface therefore it can only be run if Java runtime environment is installed on your computer.

The program can take fraction decimal values as well as integer values and convert them to binary.
You can download the software from softpedia.com

Thursday, April 2, 2009

QuickTime Alternative

QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt, .3gp and other extensions) in Windows Media Player classic without having to install the official QuickTime Player. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages

Comodo Firewall


Comodo Firewall is the multi-layered security application that keeps hackers out and personal information in.

Built from the ground upwards with your security in mind, this award winning firewall constantly monitors and defends your system from inbound and outbound attacks. The application also features a fully fledged Host Intrusion Prevention System to protect your critical operating system files and block viruses and malware before they ever get the chance to install.

It features a friendly graphical user interface; highly granular configuration options; easily understood and informative alerts; wizard based detection of trusted zones and much more. Comodo Firewall delivers enterprise class protection and can be used 'out of the box' - so even the most inexperienced users will not have to deal with complex configuration issues after installation..

VLC Media Player 0.9.8a

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 and more 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, ...) It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding.

eMule - Peer-to-Peer file sharer


eMule is a free peer-to-peer file sharing application for Microsoft Windows as an alternative to eDonkey2000, eMule now connects to both the eDonkey network and the Kad network. The distinguishing features of eMule are the direct exchange of sources between client nodes, fast recovery of corrupted downloads, and the use of a credit system to reward frequent uploaders. Furthermore, eMule transmits data in zlib-compressed form to save bandwidth.