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Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds, 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.

MediaMonkey is a nifty application designed to keep track of your albums and to play, burn, tag, and organize music supported by the most popular audio formats. It uses tagging to catalog your music, so you can quickly locate any song.
The user interface needs some time to get used to, but after a while it does seem to be pretty well organized and even if it hosts a lot of functions, each of them is neatly placed and can be accessed effortlessly.
Party Mode is a feature of MediaMonkey that prevents any modifications to your files, or to the software configuration, while Sleep mode allows you to configure the time to play the songs, whether to shut down the program at the end, or gradually fade the volume.
You can organize files in many categories that include Music, Podcast, Playlists, Media Servers, and Net Radio (access to SHOUTcast and Icecast radio).
Track managing has many useful features such as editing track properties and album information, album art, auto-tag from filename, converting formats, and others. In addition, you can burn an audio CD, data CD/DVD/BD, or erase rewritable discs.
The Options menu has countless settings customizations you can use to modify the application and configure supported extensions, plugins, downloads, file tagging and a lot more, all designed to fit the needs and requirements of the more demanding users.
To sum things up, MediaMonkey is a complete audio management solution that provides everything one would need to organize a vast music collection. Besides the playback capabilities and numerous configuration possibilities, this program supports Winamp plugins and comes with a most useful CD/DVD ripper and burner.

• Organize music and edit tags in your audio library with a powerful, intuitive interface
• Automatically lookup and tag Album Art and other metadata
• Manage 50,000+ files in your music collection without bogging down
• Play MP3s and other audio formats, and never again worry about varying volume
• Record CDs into OGG, MP3, FLAC and WMA files
• Convert MP3s, OGG, FLAC and WMA files into other formats with the Audio Converter
• Create playlists and music mixes quickly and easily to suit any occasion
• Synchronize with iPods / MP3 players effortlessly and convert tracks on-the-fly
• Download audio content using the new integrated Podcatcher.
• Use MediaMonkey for Parties or other public places with Party Mode
• Create Statistics and other Reports of your music collection as Excel, html, or xml files.
• Customize MediaMonkey with Skins, visualizations, plug-ins and scripts to make it do what you want it to.
• Plus much more… 

Windows 7-style Start menu with Windows 8 enhancements

• Search for Windows 8-style (Modern UI) apps
• Pin desktop and Metro apps to the start menu
• Jump List support
• Unified Search for apps, settings and files
• Boot directly to the Windows 8 desktop
• One click access to shut down, devices, music, documents, and videos

What’s New in This Release:

• Updated for Windows 8.1 Preview build compatibility
• Start8 allows customizing the Start button image AND provides a desktop Start menu
• Added new prompt on first run to select a default button image. Upgrade installs will not see this prompt.
• When running on Windows 8.1 Preview, respect the OS configuration for “boot to desktop”
• When used with Stardock WindowBlinds, you can also override the Start button in use with the WB setting for “always use the OS” button
• Options for showing the Windows 8.1 Start screen in other than full-screen mode are disabled in this version of Start8

Essential protection that won’t get in your way! If you use your computer every day, you need protection that’s always there, constantly keeping you safe. With AVG Anti-Virus, you get hassle-free protection against today’s most sophisticated threats, online and offline. AVG Anti-Virus includes our unique LinkScanner® to prevent you from accidentally visiting harmful sites. It’s faster, smarter security that won’t slow you down. AVG Antivirus is one of the most complete programs we have found to date. It includes many new options to make it one of the most effective virus scanners on the market. It is still plagued by horrible slowdowns at times. Even things so simple as just typing an IM can be stopped for several seconds for some reason. If you can get passed the occasional slowdowns of your computer, the scanning functionality of AVG Antivirus is top of the line. With the rewrite of the scanning engine, AVG includes multi-processor support.
Our job is to stop viruses before they even get to your PC. We check your files before you open them, your Facebook links before you click, your email before it gets to you and your websites before you visit them.

You get: AntiVirus, AntiMalware (AVG Resident Shield), AVG Anti-Rootkit, AVG Email Scanner, AVG Protective Cloud Technology, AVG Community Protection Network, AVG LinkScanner® Surf-Shield, AVG Social Networking Protection

Hot Virtual Keyboard is an intuitive application that gives you access to a virtual keyboard on the screen, using the mouse or touch screen. It comes in handy when your actual keyboard has problems, such as a stuck key or slow responsiveness.
Aside from the standard keys, the keyboard also provides buttons for changing the input language, Cut, Copy, Paste and Undo functions, viewing and changing hotkeys, and accessing options.
At initialization, the tool creates an icon in the system tray area, where you can show or hide the virtual keyboard, as well as access its wide range of options.
The on-screen keyboard stays on top of other windows by default, and you can make it run at system startup automatically, set its priority high, as well as change the theme and drawing styles.
Other appearance customization options focus on the transparency level, background picture, font and characters font. Moreover, you can lock the aspect ratio and window size, set a delay for disappearing, configure typing aid settings (e.g. enable autoclick and key repeat), as well as use gestures.
Additional features of Hot Virtual Keyboard let you enable word autocomplete mode, download dictionaries from an online database, lock the language bar, hide hints and Windows icons, enable sounds, add dependencies, and others. Settings can be restored to their factory values at any time.
Hot Virtual Keyboard runs on a low quantity of CPU and system memory, so it’s not a burden to the computer’s performance. It has a very good response time and works smoothly, without causing the OS to hang, crash or show error dialogs. Thanks to its intuitive and numerous options, both simple and advanced, Hot Virtual Keyboard should meet the requirements of all users.

• Fully customizable look and behavior
• Gestures to quickly change case or insert spaces
• Programmable buttons for performing routine operations such as copying and pasting text
• Keys to launch applications, open Web pages or run macros with a single tap
• Word auto-complete to make typing faster and more accurate than ever
• Support of multiple languages and keyboard layouts
• An ability to integrate the virtual keyboard into other systems

GOM Player is a free multimedia player with popular video and audio codecs built-in. GOM Player supports file formats such as AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX, XviD, WMV, ASF. Users don’t have to install codecs separately. GOM Player is capable of playing incomplete or damaged AVI files by skipping the damaged frames. It can also play locked or partially downloaded files. Its other features include drag-and-drop support, HTTP streaming, editable skins, subtitling, overlay mixer, key remapping, enhanced filter rendering, real-time index rebuilding for AVI files and unicode support among others.
Changes in 2.2

• A new default GOM Player 2.2 Skin has been applied.
• Volume can now be boosted to 200%.
• UI Transparency Slider added.
• Bookmark Feature Improved.
• Changes the File Associations window for Windows 8.
• Playback status icon added to taskbar icon.
• Message reflecting window size changes added.
• Internal support added for multiple codecs.
• A buffer overflow security issue has been corrected.
• Audio sync issue with some Xvid videos corrected.
• Improved ability to properly recognized display aspect ratio.
• Improved ability to display “Current Frame” information.
• Other misc. corrections and fixes.

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 6.19 adds Windows 8 compatibility, adds IDM download panel for web-players that can be used to download flash videos from sites like MySpaceTV, and others. It also features complete Windows 7 and Vista support, video page grabber, redeveloped scheduler, and MMS protocol support. The new version also adds improved integration for IE 10 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.

Internet Download Manager v6.19. Added Windows 8 compatibility. Fixed compatibility problems with different browsers including Internet Explorer 10, all Mozilla Firefox versions up to Mozilla Firefox Aurora, Google Chrome. Improved FLV grabber to save videos from web players on web pages, Google Video, MySpace TV, and other popular sites.