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Greenshot – a free screenshot tool optimized for productivity. Being easy to understand and configurable, Greenshot is an efficient tool for project managers, software developers, technical writers, testers and anyone else creating screenshots. Greenshot is designed to enable you to save a screenshot or a part of the screen to a file within a second, and additionally you have an option to apply text and shapes to the screenshot. It offers full screenshot, capture of region and window and supports multiple image formats. Greenshot was published under GPL, i.e. this software can be downloaded and used free of charge, even in a commercial environment. Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows with the following key features:
Pale Moon is a custom-built and speed optimized Firefox browser. The Pale Moon project is the work of a single individual, using contributed Open Source code to create a full-featured, speed optimized browser based on the popular Firefox browser. Having seen the advantages on other systems (e.g. Linux) with regards to programs being compiled specifically for the capabilities of the machine it is installed on, it became obviously clear that Windows users were at a disadvantage: Mozilla only releases windows executables with maximum compatibility in mind, meaning that Firefox is made to run on as many different systems as possible, sacrificing efficiency and speed in the process to be compatible with, by current standards, absolutely ancient hardware. 
SpeedyFox is a brand new small utility that allows you to boost Firefox, Skype, Chrome, Thunderbird in a single click absolutely for free! Firefox (and sometimes it’s add-ons) uses SQLITE databases to store lots of its settings. By the time the databases grow and Firefox starts working slowly. It will take a lot of time to load during startup, the overall speed will be effected, and browsing Histories will be too slow. This is very common problem and it occurs largely because of fragmentation of databases. SpeedyFox compacts those databases without loosing any data. Databases are optimized to operate faster and are decreased in size. After you optimize your Firefox, Skype, Chrome, Thunderbird with this tool, you will get a fresh newly-installed feel because the speed indeed gets considerably faster. 
Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate is a blazing-fast drag-and-drop digital video converter, DVD burner and converter, which lets you convert videos/DVDs to and from virtually any video format out there, with 30X faster conversion speed. Stop limiting your video entertainment options on your PC. Make your movies versatile by instantly converting them to AVI, WMV, MP4, MKV, FLV, 3GP, MPG – even convert video to 3D. Burn video files to DVD disc, DVD folder, or ISO files, download or record videos from YouTube, Google, Yahoo, Myspace, CNN and other video sharing sites, convert home DVD movies to any video/audio, for playback on devices. The program offers some default settings for iPhone/iPad/iPod/PSP/HTC, Windows Media Player/Movie Maker and other popular devices and apps.
Light Image Resizer from Obvious Idea (previously known as VSO Image Resizer) is a free tool that organizes your photos by shrinking their resolution or moving them within your hard drive. It is the perfect tool for those who store their digital pictures and images on their PC and who want to resize, compress, convert, create copies, import or organize photos. Light Image Resizer is integrated into the Windows explorer shell, right click on your pictures and start working on your pictures! Using this free resize image software, you can create e-mail friendly versions of your images, load them faster, move them easily from folder to folder, change their format, edit large numbers of image files/batch image resize and thus save space on your hard drive.
Adobe Prelude CC is a transcoding and tagging video production software, designed for intuitive, efficient metadata entry, that lets you tag and transcode video footage rapidly. It translates effortlessly into Adobe Premiere Pro, ensuring fluid communication and organization throughout the video production process. Streamline your production process, get organized, and work faster using more connected tools and an interface designed specifically for video ingest and logging workflows. Speed up your video ingest and logging tasks with flexible new ways to enter metadata in Adobe Prelude CC. Preview clips and create rough cuts that open directly in Adobe Premiere Pro to keep your production vision intact and accelerate the editing process. 
Dr.Web Security Space 9 provides comprehensive protection of workstations from Internet threats reinforced with the firewall against network attacks. Software components: anti-virus, anti-rootkit, anti-spy, firewall, HTTP monitor, anti-spam, parental control. Increased performance of the anti-virus engine gives Dr.Web Scanner a thirty per cent boost of speed for checking RAM, boot sectors, hard drives and removable media compared with the previous version. High detection rate and speed of scanning are not the only criteria that determine the quality of an anti-virus. It should also be capable of curing files – restoring them to their original state instead of deletion making sure that a user doesn’t lose important information. The smart filtering technology of Dr.Web Security Space 9 
IObit Smart Defrag is a Free Disk Defragmenter, that accelerates the whole system with fast and efficient disk defragment. Based on IObit latest disk defrag engine and “Boot Time Disk Defrag” technology, Smart Defrag 3 is created with the world’s leading defragmentation ability. It not only provides defragmentation, but also intelligently streamlines your files based on using frequency, thus accelerating disk speed and the whole system for top performance! Smart Defrag 3 works fast, automatically and quietly in the background and is suitable for large hard drives. IObit Smart Defrag helps defragment your hard drive more efficiently than any other product on the market – free or not. It is known that disk fragments has been a primary cause of slow and unstable PC performance.
Lunascape is the world’s only triple engine web browser. What this means is that you can have the best features, performance, and speed of, Windows Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari all in one browser and can view any website in an optimal way without a need to open another browser. Yeah, that’s right. Lunascape = IE (Trident), Firefox (Gecko), Chrome, Safari (Webkit). On top of that, our technology achieves one of the fastest browsing speed and provides you with full of features and customizable options. It is light, snappy, and fun. No more oh-so-slow moment. No more messed-up page display. No more juggling multiple browsers. Your internet experience is a lot better with Lunascape. Experience it yourself, the whole new speed and versatility.
BurnAware Free is a full-fledged disc burning tool – fast, lightweight, feature-packed and, most importantly, 100% free. The program burns all types of CD, DVD and Blu-Ray discs containing data, digital photos, music and video. With BurnAware Free, you will be able to create bootable or multisession CDs and DVDs, high-quality audio CDs, make and burn disc images, copy and backup discs.
SmartFTP is a smart and efficient FTP (File Transfer Protocol), FTPS, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, SSH, Terminal client. It allows you to transfer files between your local computer and a server on the Internet. With its many basic and advanced Features SmartFTP also offers secure, reliable and efficient transfers that make it a powerful tool. Multiple FTP connections can be opened at the same time, and you can copy files from one remote host to another (FXP). Remote-host directory information is cached for future viewing, and FTP URLs are supported. SmartFTP can be used for: Web site publishing and maintenance; Upload and download of images, documents, movie and music files; Share your files with your friends and coworkers; Backups of local or remote files.
Sumatra PDF is a slim, free PDF, XPS, DjVu, CBZ and CBR reader for Windows with a minimalistic design. Simplicity has a higher priority than a lot of features. This reader is small and starts up very fast. Options are a little thin on the ground but Sumatra PDF provides a very comfortable environment for reading PDFs and you can print documents without much hassle. You can take this over Acrobat any day for looking at eBooks. Also Sumatra PDF is designed for portable use: it’s just one file with no external dependencies so you can easily run it from external USB drive. This classifies it as a portable application. As is characteristic of many portable applications, Sumatra takes up little disk space. SumatraPDF works on Windows 8.1/ 8, Windows 7, Vista, XP and Windows 2000. Not supported: Windows 95, 98 and ME.
Desktop iCalendar is a customizable calendar program that gets calendar, events, to-do list and weather on your desktop. It stays on your desktop and shows the days of the current month. Desktop iCalendar allows you to sync local calendar file with Google Calendar or Yahoo! Calendar with your desktop, share calendars with your family and friends. It also uses high-quality fonts, looks pretty, and has lots of skins. So you can edit your Google calendar offline, and share the calendar data on multiple computers. Calendar information can be entered from any computer and the data will become visible at all the computers. In addition, it allows using to-do list with Google calendar too. Desktop iCalendar Pro Version allows you to sync desktop calendar with Google Calendar on different computers.
Mozilla Firefox 32 is a fast, secure and easy to use web browser that offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the tabbed browsing and the ability to block pop-up windows. It lets you to view Web pages way faster, using less of your computer’s memory. Take Firefox 32 with you wherever you go. Synchronize your browsing across multiple devices. Forget clunky URLs – find the sites you love in seconds. Firefox 32 has the most ways to customize your online experience specifically for the way you use the web. It is built with you in mind, so it’s easy and instinctive to use even the first time you try it. Thousands of Add-ons (little extras that augment Firefox to meet your unique needs) just waiting out there to help you do more, have more fun and be more creative online. 
HTTrack Website Copier is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility. You can download the contents of entire web sites from the Internet to a local directory for offline viewing. HTTrack Website Copier allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack Website Copier arranges the original site’s relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the “mirrored” website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack also can update existing mirrored sites and resume interrupted site downloads. It crawls M3U and AAM files and can cache to a ZIP file.
NANO AntiVirus provides reliable protection of your computer from any kinds of malware such as viruses, Trojans (binary, macro, script), worms and other dangerous programs. The product is very useful. The resource optimization usage ensures the comfortable user’s work. The performance of frequent tasks is easy-to-use. You can check your computer or removable medium, start the express testing and update components of antiviral complex by one click. NANO AntiVirus has the ability to protect your system in real-time mode. Each time when you try to access to any file with turned on real-time protection, system will automatically scan that file. The trusted area allows you to except some safe objects from testing for acceleration of scanning. 
Waterfox is a high performance browser based on the Mozilla Firefox source code. This code is taken and compiled to run specifically for 64-Bit Windows computers. To make Waterfox stand out a bit more, it’s compiled with optimizations so that it will run more efficiently and faster than just compiling Firefox as a 64-Bit program. Having been compiled specifically for this type of system, its performance is better than the standard version of Firefox. Icons and names aside, Waterfox is identical to Firefox, and is updated each time you do the main version, with the difference that your executable has been compiled for x64 and Windows systems. Waterfox was compiled with Intel’s C++ Compiler with the following optimisations: Intel’s Math Library, SSE3, AVX for supported Intel processors, jemalloc,