Downloads

One thing you will surely miss on your Android phone is a good media player that can play most of the popular formats. RockPlayer is a free Android media player app that is still in Beta (and hence not available in the Android market yet) and can play almost any video file, including AVI, MKV, FLV, MP4, 3GP, WMV, MOV, ASF, DIVX, XVID, H.264, and RMVB. (more…)

Do you like those panoramic postcards that you got from your last vacation, and want to make one yourself from your travel pictures? Well, there are several free Panorama making software that let you create beautiful 360 panorama, including some free photo apps for iPhone. (more…)

An official version of Firefox 4 Beta is now made available for download from the Mozilla website. Firefox 4 Beta comes with some minor UI enhancements and support for the next generation web standards including WebM, HD video, HTML 5 (also supported by the recently updated Safari 5), CSS3, and so on. (more…)

There are plenty of freeware that lets you download YouTube, Google videos, MetaCafe, Vimeo videos to your PC. But not all of them are capable of converting the videos to popular video formats such as MP4, 3GP, and WMV used in portable media playing devices. (more…)

Windows Live Essentials is a free suite of applications provided by Microsoft. It includes Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Writer, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Windows Mail, Family Safety, Bing Search Bar, and so on. In addition to these, with the newly released Windows Live Essentials Beta, you also get Office Outlook Connector and Silverlight. (more…)

Most of us try hard to fix the slow startup of a Windows PC by removing unwanted applications during the boot time. Sometimes we end up removing necessary applications, or are unable to optimize the startup time no matter how hard we try. For frustrated users of Windows, Soluto is the ultimate anti-frustration software. (more…)

The iPhone Dev Team is fast updating it’s jailbreak tool redsn0w 0.9.5 Beta 5. Following an initial release to jailbreak iOS 4 GM, redsn0w got updated to jailbreak iOS 4 final version. Now another update is released in the form of redsn0w 0.9.5 Beta 5 release 3 to fix the iBooks issue on iPhone and iPod Touch. (more…)

Finally Apple has released iOS 4 for public, following a GM release which was limited only to developers. This version of iOS 4, being of the same build as GM (8A293), supports the soon to be released iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPod Touch 3G and iPod Touch 2G. The iPad version is expected to be released sometime later. (more…)

There are several iTunes alternative freeware that let you copy music from Computer to iPod, including CopyTrans Manager and YamiPod. However sometimes you want to transfer music the other way, from your iPod to your hard drive, after a Computer crash or accidentally deleted music library. If you had not already taken a back-up of iTunes library and Playlists, then you need to somehow recover the deleted songs. (more…)

While there are many good video converters out there, many of them are very complex in features and functionality. If you only want to rip DVDs into either MP4 or MKV format, then consider using VidCoder, a simple to use free DVD ripper and video transcoder for Windows. Based on Handbrake’s encoding engine, this one gives you an intuitive interface with a limited set of options and makes things easy. (more…)

While iTunes 9.1 came with sync support for iPad, iTunes 9.2 adds support for the latest iPhone OS iOS 4 and the soon to be released iPhone 4. Some of the newly added features include support for syncing PDF documents as books, reading PDFs with iBooks on iPad and iPhone or iPod Touch with iOS 4, ability to organize apps into folders on iOS 4 homescreen, faster syncing with iPhone or iPod Touch on iOS 4, and so on. (more…)

Want to know whether your DVD drive is region protected, and if so what is the region code? Here is a small portable utility DriveInfo that lets you find this out in a jiffy. This free program also gives you details such as the left over number of changes to your drive region code. (more…)

The iPhone Dev Team has updated Redsn0w to 0.9.5 Beta, adding support for the latest iOS 4.0 GM and also iPod Touch 2G. Along with this, redsn0w 0.9.5 Beta now also supports optional multitasking and homescreen wallpaper, which are disabled by Apple. (more…)

After releasing a series of best of the Bing wallpapers as Windows 7 themes, including Bing’s Best 2 theme and Bing’s Best 3 theme, Microsoft has now released the Bing Photo Contest theme for Windows 7. This nature theme pack consists of 12 high quality wallpapers, each of 1920x1200px resolution. (more…)

Fans of soon to be held EA Sports Soccer World Cup  can now get some fantastic wallpapers of the popular online game on their Windows 7 desktop. In collaboration with Electronic Arts, the makers of the game, Microsoft has released a new Windows 7 theme. This sports theme consists of 10 high resolution wallpapers, each of 1920x1200px resolution. (more…)

Exactly an year after Safari 4 got released, Apple has silently released Safari 5, the latest version of their browser for Windows and Mac OS X. While Safari 4 brought the Top Sites tab, cover flow and a full history search, Safari 5 adds Safari reader that lets you read online articles free of distraction, better HTML5 support with added geo location services, full screen view for HTML5 video, a faster JavaScript engine, support for developing extensions a la Firefox or Google Chrome, built-in search options including Google, Bing, and Yahoo. (more…)

The most common reason for Windows PC slowing down is a messed up or bloated registry. Whenever you uninstall programs using the Windows uninstaller, some registry entries such as unused file associations are left over. (more…)