AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is the most popular free solution available at no cost to home users and provides the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers.

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. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy to use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements). Highlights include automatic update functionality, the AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run, free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product, and AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files.

Geekman to the Rescue believes that every individual, regardless of economic status or geographic location, should have the power to control their individual privacy and security.

Lavasoft agrees which is why Ad-Aware remains the most popular anti-spyware product for computer users around the world, with nearly one million downloads every week.

This free anti-spyware version provides you with advanced protection against spyware that secretly attaches and takes control of your computer, resulting in aggressive advertising pop-ups, sluggish computer activity, even identity theft through stolen bank details, passwords, and credit card account numbers.

No, that's not a keyboard stutter! With over 85 million downloads, CCleaner (formerly known as CrapCleaner) is one of the top system optimization and privacy tools available today. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space.

It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO spyware or adware!

To learn more about CCleaner, visit their Quick Tour Pages before hitting the download button to your right.

Defraggler is fully programable allowing you to schedule automatic defragging at times convenient to you. Great for users who run their computers 24/7 and want a daily defrag while they're sleeping with having to worry about manually starting the program.

This compact and portable Windows application supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems.

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Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software by Adobe Systems. These applications use Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) as their native file format. Some software in the family is commercial, and some free of charge.

Adobe Reader (formerly called Acrobat Reader) is available as a free of charge download from Adobe's web site, and allows the viewing and printing of PDF files. Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a way to present information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication.

Adobe's Flash Player allows you to:

• Enjoy the most vivid content on the web
• Watch video without extra downloads
• Interact with applications on your favorite sites

In fact, Geekman to the Rescue uses flash animations on the very web site you are viewing. If you don't see animated content at the top of this (and every) page, then you probably don't have the Flash Player. Download it now for a more enriched web experience!

Over 478 million internet users have installed Adobe Shockwave Player all over the world. They now have access to some of the best the internet has to offer -- including dazzling 3D games and entertainment, interactive product demonstrations, and online learning applications.

Shockwave Player displays web content that has been created by Macromedia Director.

QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc. capable of handling various formats of digital video, media clips, sound, text, animation, music, and several types of interactive panoramic images.

The QuickTime Player serves as a helper application for web browsers to play media files that might otherwise fail to open.

iTunes is a digital media player application, introduced by Apple on January 10, 2001 at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for playing and organizing digital music and video files. iTunes is also an interface to manage the contents on Apple's iPod digital media players as well as the recently introduced iPhone.

Additionally, iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store (provided an internet connection is present) in order to purchase and download digital music, music videos, television shows, iPod games, audiobooks, various podcasts, and feature length films.

Div-X is a free download that provides everything you need to enjoy high-quality digital videos on your computer.

It includes codecs for HD H.264 (.mkv) videos with AAC audio and videos created using all previous versions of DivX technology.

If you have ever been the email recipient of one of those slide show presentations, chances are that you needed Microsoft PowerPoint to view the attachment (typically a file name with an extension such as ".ppt" or ".pps").

This version of PowerPoint Viewer lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions. This viewer also supports opening password-protected Microsoft PowerPoint presentations - provided of course you know the password.

With this viewer from Microsoft, you will be able to view and print presentations, but you won't be able to edit them using this software.

Digsby is a multi-protocol IM client that allows you chat with all your friends in AIM, FaceBook Chat, GoogleTalk, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, MySpace IM, and Yahoo! with one simple to manage buddy list.

Digsby is social networking tool that keeps you connected to your friends on FaceBook, Linked In, MySpace, and Twitter by providing you with real time alerts, news feeds, and other notifications without having to login to those sites via the web. Plus Digsby doesn't intefere with other alert services you may be running simultaneously such as alerts and notifications to your cell phone -- you'll get them in both places.

Digsby is an email notification services that alerts you when new mail arrives via AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo! and even your own private domain email (POP3/IMAP).

What are Yahoo! Widgets?

The Yahoo! Widget Gallery offers over 4,000 desktop Widgets - the most available anywhere online. Yahoo! Widgets is the only major desktop Widgets platform that works on both Windows and Mac OSes.

Click here for a sample of how your desktop would be enhanced with Yahoo! Widgets. Click here to see a sample of the Widgets that come bundled with the initial download of the Widget Engine.

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OpenOffice is a multi-platform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. OpenOffice is Compatible with all other major office suites.

OpenOffice includes:

• Writer – a word processor you can use for anything from writing a quick letter to producing an entire book.
• Calc – a powerful spreadsheet with all the tools you need to calculate, analyze, and present your data in numerical reports or sizzling graphics.
• Impress – the fastest, most powerful way to create effective multimedia presentations.
• Draw – lets you produce everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D illustrations.
• Base – lets you manipulate databases seamlessly. Create and modify tables, forms, queries, and reports, all from within OpenOffice.org
• Math – lets you create mathematical equations with a graphic user interface or by directly typing your formulas into the equation editor.

Click here for a comparison of features between Microsoft Office 2007 versus OpenOffice.

GIMP (or GNU Image Manipulation Program) is another open-source project providing you with a free alternative to Adobe's PhotoShop.

And like Photshop, there is a bit of a learning curve involved. GIMP does take a bit of getting used to in that many of the same features offered in PhotoShop aren't always called the same thing in GIMP. (For example, resizing in GIMP is cropping in PhotoShop.)

But if you are not inclined to spend hundred of dollars on PhotoShop, GIMP is a great (read: free!) way to get into phot retouching, image composition, and image authoring.

Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world.

CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". In other words: it installs itself as though it were an actual physical printer. This enables virtually any Windows applications (which has a print function) to create professional quality PDF documents -- with just a click of a button!

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