Free Browsers

Avant Browser

        The Avant browser is sufficiently fast, preloaded with two dozen similar skins as well as tabbed browsing and modular tool bars that let you move around and hide the Status bar, Toolbar, Search window, and navigation controls. The Menu bar, though, is counter intuitively pinned to the upper-right corner, and icons for proprietary functions, such as an in-page search term highlighting toggle, aren't instantly comprehensible.
        Avant can save personalized data online, making bookmarks and form content accessible from any machine. Around the same size as Firefox, Avant includes many features that are available to Firefox users only through plug-ins--such as automatic form fillers. The Full Screen view auto hides all menu bars, a nice touch, but certain plug-ins--notably Flash--didn't work on Windows Vista.
        Avant is a good browser with some nice built-in features and interface-customization options, but the lack of extensibility and Vista problems don't help. We recommend it to users who want a Microsoft-based engine but think that Internet Explorer 7 is a pain.
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Google Chrome Browser

          Chrome is Google's attempt to make the Web browser disappear and to focus on the applications and pages users are viewing, rather than on the border with its tools. Some of Chrome's basic underpinnings are quite novel, but people will recognize other features as they exist in other, open-source Web browsers on the market today.
           Chrome is amazingly fast and is easily the quickest browser available. Based on Web kit, the same open-source engine that powers Apple Safari, Google's Android mobile platform, and several other Web-browsing tools, Chrome's interface is a drastic departure from other browsers.
           Instead of the traditional toolbar, Chrome puts its tabs on top. Moreover, the tabs are detachable: "tabs" and "windows" are interchangeable here. Detached tabs can be dragged and dropped into the browser, and tabs can be rearranged at any time. By isolating each tab's processes, when one site crashes, the other tabs do not.
The search box and the address bar have been fused into a hybrid "Omnibox," which includes suggestions for URLs culled from your browser's history and search suggestions from your search engine.
          It also remembers site-specific search engine results. There's also Application Shortcuts, a feature that lets you create desktop icons for Web-only applications, such as Gmail or Calendar. The stealth mode, Incognito, lets you surf without the history recording cookies. With version 3, themes have been introduced to Chrome and users can reskin the browser with more than 30 choices--not quite the depth of Firefox, but they don't seem to negatively affect performance.
        A developer's version of Chrome supports extensions, which haven't made it into this stable release yet. If you're addicted to Web apps and a need for speed, though, Chrome just might be the shine your browsing experience has been looking for.
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P2P File Sharing Software

LimeWire 5.4.6

LimeWire is the highest-profile P2P application. Version 5 re-envisions LimeWire for a Web 2.0 world, with an emphasis on sharing with friends, square buttons with rounded corners, and overall a cleaner interface.
Two search bars and two sidebars cap off the redesign. The uppermost search bar is the global search that scans what everybody is sharing over the P2P network, while the secondary one on the right searches your library.
The sidebars are set up in a similar way. Both are on the left, with the outer one offering three options: your library, the global P2P network, and your friends.
Click on My Library and your inner sidebar shows your collection of music, movies, and documents. The P2P Network option shows what you're uploading and downloading, while the Friends option lets you share your library specifically with your Google/Jabber contacts, which you can import.
Search results can be presented in both the new Web 2.0-style that surfaces just the most relevant information, with an Information button to dive deeper or the "classic" spreadsheet view.
The Advanced Tools feature is also new, which lets power users drill down and get highly specific information about who they're connected to, similar to what's available from torrent clients.
This data includes IP addresses, bandwidth, the program being used and its version. The new features and overall functionality make this by far the most mature version of LimeWire to date. Despite the typical performance flaws found in all file-sharing clients, this latest version continues to offer solid performance and good looks across the board.
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MP3 Rocket

MP3 Rocket is another LimeWire source code fork, like FrostWire, and as such it functions exactly the same. When you search for a file using MP3 Rocket, you get results from LimeWire, and vice versa.
What makes MP3 Rocket stand out are the TV, Radio, and Games channels. There are more than 200 live broadcast radio signals coming in, as well as similar numbers for TV stations and Flash-based games, mostly arcade classics such as Pac-Man and Street Fighter.
Radio stations are streamed live from FM signals around the country, and TV channels include the Sci-Fi Channel, Cartoon Network, videos from MTV and more.
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DBGO 2.0

DBGO 2.0 is a P2P program that is fully compatible with other P2P servers. With DBGO, you can search the Internet for shared files to download in all formats, including videos, documents, images. Offers to install PCCLEAR that the program does not require to fully function. You can release the check box, if you don't want to install anti virus program--PCCLEAR Free trial version. DBGO is the most powerful P2P application, supporting eDonkey and eMule, and capable of high-speed file transfers and high-capacity data downloads. DBGO supports high-speed file transfers. Provided that the user has a good Internet connection, transfer speeds can be increased significantly. In addition, search results for high-speed and normal files are categorized separately, enabling DBGO users to download files more easily. By providing a 3-tier organization that shows the download status of high-speed files, normal files and current files separately, the files that are currently being transferred can be checked more easily. Other solutions, such as Webhard or commercial P2P programs, have per-use charges or subscription fees, DBGO is 100% free and has no charges whatsoever. Feel free to use DBGO. Maintaining the newest engine through regular updates DBGO automatically updates itself on a regular basis, ensuring that users can enjoy fast and stable downloads.
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Download Free Music Player

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